I was planning on observing apple, to keep an eye out for any flashes from it, as I have not observed it along time:( But then after 2 hours of observing between 2 to 4 UTC and not seeing any flahes , I decided to check on INMARSAT 4-F2, to see if I could observe it's main body flare. I found last time I observed it, no flaring was seen, yet I can easily see the main body flare as I call it, from the 2 milstars. I was watching to try and spot it, when I observe a flash. I then roughly 1 minute later, saw another flash, so I decided to try and id this nice flasher. I got an id for it, as Gorizont 29. It was flashing every 65 seconds. I observed it from roughly 3:51 to 5:04 UTC ( May 28 ). I had also seen an atlas centaur rocket pass by, while observing Gorizont 29. It was 08331 ( 1975-091 B ) Nice slow flasher. PPAS report for Gorizont 29 93- 72 A 06-05-28 04:30:36 KF 65 +5.0->inv Video of one of it's flashes. File size less then 1 MB. http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/052806/22907.wmv Time of flash was 4:31:41 utc, so the flash was at roughly 17 h 38 m R.A -10 deg 08 min DEC At 5:18 UTC ( May 28 ) I observed Express AM-11, which was so bright on the tv. Video is roughly 2 minutes in duration, showing the slow decrease in brightness. Warning File Size is 11 MB http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/052806/28234.wmv Kevin 44.6062 N 75.6910 W __________________________________________________ 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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