On Sat, 26 May 2001 16:31:40 -0400, you (Daniel Deak <dan.deak@sympatico.ca>) wrote: >The USA 32 strong sparkling I saw on May 22 at 02:51:30 was at culmination at >the same elevation and azimuth (42 el. and 270 az.) I picked it up on May 25 around 21:24 UTC roughly at or immediately after culmination in my western sky, ele. 29° and decreasing and az. 270° and decreasing. With the sun still sinking at -12.8° it had a phase angle in the =<100° range and kept improving (was well below 90° when I lost it behind a tree in the SW). Observation distance grew through 1400-1500km during that time. It made a nice pass almost directly through Regulus, but what others have observed as a "brilliant sparkle", I can only call a *very* faint irregular flicker, otherwise it appeared rather stable. The change in brightness was there, but it was so hard to notice that I'm sure I could have easily missed it if I hadn't been specifically looking for it. CU! Markus (N51.7264, E8.7434, 113m, MEST) -- http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/8611/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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