After a siege of unfavorable weather -- in order to see the Leonids I drove several hours to west Texas to escape clouds and rain -- the sky has improved. Thursday night after unsuccessful binocular attempts to try to find ASC 1, while I was just looking at the sky hoping I might see it do a one-power flash, instead I saw unexpected one-power flashes from a slow-moving, southbound object. Last night I confirmed it was Molniya 3-42 (92-067A, 22178). I was in San Antonio, TX (29.400N, 98.660W, 180m) both nights. Thursday evening I thought the flashes might have been as bright as +2, but last night, maybe due to the Moon being kind of close, I'm saying +3 instead. Russell Eberst reported it varying in September 2000 (PPAS). 92- 67 A 01-11-25 04:14:09 EC 572.0 0.5 47 12.17 +3.0->inv I've seen some one-power flashes from Superbird A each of the last three nights, but tonight the Moon will interfere too much; I think I will have to use binoculars. I still haven't managed to find ASC 1 since the weather has improved. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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