We had ten nights in a row of mostly spring storms with lots of clouds. I did manage to see a couple of bright ones (ISS and Cosmos 2405) during those nights, between clouds. Earlier tonight I got timings on one that didn't have an "f" or a "t" (for "flashing" or "tumbling") in my Quicksat magnitude file. I had some trouble as to when to click on the maxima. 12682, Cosmos 1295 Rk -- 81- 77 B 06-05-11 02:58:11 EC 91.1 2.0 10 9.1 +5.0->i timings: 9.15, 9.04, 8.81, 9.73, 18.48, 17.98, 17.86 Suitsat was tumbling more rapidly this time, I believe, than when it was previously visible here -- about three weeks ago (plus or minus a week?). On Saturday evening, April 29 local time (April 30 UTC), I was trying to see the bright sparkling maximum of USA 81 when I saw a flash higher up with my peripheral vision. I saw another and got my binocular on it and was able to watch it for about a minute total before it either went into shadow or just quit flashing. It was going nearly straight up in the west, through what I think of as the head of Leo; so it was traveling west to east. This was at about 3:25 UTC. When Mike and his family returned from being out of town and I told him about it, he had seen it also, from roughly 200 miles (320 km) WNW. The thing is -- there was no match. It was an unid. Its flash period was just two or three or four seconds. (My clicks were few and erratic.) Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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