Last night was very similar to the previous night, including that the weather was very nice. I looked hard for ETS 6 last night from about 5:00 to 6:00 UTC, without success. (This was a different type pass from the previous night; this one was approaching apogee and was nearly due west, about 32 to 22 degrees above the horizon.) It seems that perhaps the object seen from Boulder, Colorado, was not ETS 6 (?). (That observer wrote that he watched on the previous night -- Nov 7 UTC -- for an hour without seeing an object like that.) He reported that in the first observation of the flashing object with 20 to 22-second flash period, about 5:00-6:00 Nov 3 UTC, it was about 45 degrees up in the southwest. Superbird A -- the first flash I counted for this PPAS report was at least +3.5: 94- 56 A 02-11-08 03:17:51.1 EC 192.1 0.2 17 11.30 +3.5->inv Observing site was 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Again before leaving UT Austin campus last night I saw Shi Jian 4 Rk (22997, 94-010C) pretty easily one-power. Both nights the range was about 2000 km. It tumbles and flashes, but I didn't have my stopwatch either night. 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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