Just came in, from watching the flare from milstar 6. The flare occurs, when milstar 6 is near opposition for the night. What the sat looks like, nice and big http://www.skyrocket.de/space/doc_sdat/milstar-2.htm It was easily Mag 8 are brighter at 2:12 UTC ( May 7 )and so easy to spot. At around 2:14 UTC, it passed close to a magnitude 8 star at Right ascension: 15h05m30.7623s Declination: -07 00' 48.964" called TYC 5012 570 1 Orbit used Milstar 6 1 27711U 03012A 07115.35345878 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 27711 0.7160 250.3267 0009810 327.9148 32.0875 1.00270000 06 The flare last quite awhile. Was still going, when I came inside. Kevin 44.6062 N 75.6910 W Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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