Sunday evening (May 19 UTC) while watching the USA 160 pair (visible without binoculars), I saw a bright one-power object above them, also northbound but moving more rapidly and appearing to be retrograde. I didn't have a prediction for such an object. It turns out, using Findsat, that it was 27433, 02-024D, Feng Yun 1D Rk Debris D. Mike McCants' latest RCS file says its RCS is 6.52 m^2. Saturday evening (May 18 UTC) Mike and I went to the dark-sky site Canyon of the Eagles, and -- well before moonrise -- we and at least a couple of other persons there saw a handful of one-power flashes by Superbird A (89-041A, 20040), but they weren't very bright, maybe +4 (?). I don't know if I could have seen them from BCRC. Of course it was still low in the sky. The DSP USA 39 (20066, 89-046A) seems like its brightest flashes are now about five minutes later than they were a month or two ago, more like 4:03 instead of 3:58 UTC. On good nights it's visible in 10x50s for a few minutes, but it's not very bright. My sister showed me an on-topic comic: http://www.comics.com/comics/grandave/archive/grandave-20030428.html Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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