May 15 UTC (Monday evening local time) NOSS 2-2 (91-076C,D,E; 21799, 21808, 21809) did a fairly easy one-power pass over Austin. I was in the middle of town and was able to see them for most of the pass. The westernmost one, 21809, was the brightest by at least half a magnitude, at almost +3. Another site with information on these trios or triplets is "Dave's Military Space Page": http://users.ox.ac.uk/~daveh/Space/Military/ A few weeks ago I posted a message about a report of a NOSS trio sighting by someone who didn't know what they were. At least one SeeSat contributor went to the site and right away found a second such report, in which the person even got a CCD photograph of them: http://www.msatech.com/nuforc/webreports/S17292.html Gorizont 16 (88-071A, 19397) proved to be easy to find a few hours ago, with handheld 10x50 binoculars; flash period is about 94.2 sec. 88- 71 A 01-05-16 05:26:12.5 EC 2825.7 0.4 30 94.19 mag +5.0->inv Observing location last two nights: 30.3068N, 97.7267W, 150m. If any of the rotation-axis determiners can suggest approximate time of flash episode of Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101) or TDF 1 (88-098A, 19621), I'd like to try to time them again! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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