I usually see milstar 3 in the +6 to +7 range, but one evening it came up out of the SW like an Iridium flare, I could make out what seemed like flares off 3 solar panels in the binos. very intense for about 45 sec. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 11/17/01 at 18:57 Edward S Light wrote: >We were about to observe 25724 = 99-023a = "Milstar 3, USA 143" when to >our surprise it seemed to be undergoing a slow bright flare. At 23:17.8 >UTC >as it passed beta Aqr it was as bright as that star (visual magnitude >+2.9) >and by 23:18.4 UTC it reached a maximum brightness like Altair's >(V=+0.8). >Because of its considerable range (2900 km), it and its flare were nice >and slow. >The only other time we saw this object (1999 October 12) it was about 7th >magnitude. > >Clear and dark skies! > >Ed and Darlene Light > >Lakewood, NJ, USA >N 40.1075, W 074.2312 Hgt +24 m (80 ft) > >________________________________________________________________ >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' >in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org >http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html *********************************************** Paul Gabriel 26.2431N 098.2163W 35m (GMT-6) gabriel305@earthlink.net God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate day from night; they shall serve as signs for the set times -- the days and the years; and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth." And it was so... And God saw that this was good. ***********************************************
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