Last night (some hours ago) I watched Superbird A (20040) from outside my apartment, looking over the building's roof. For others who might want to see it, I believe that on a given night the flash episode moves from west to east (i.e., earlier in the west, later in the east). So for example, my last observed flash below was at 3:22:03, and Don Gardner's -- for what I believe was the corresponding bright event -- was at 3:35:14. (I think he was using a telescope, but I was using handheld 10x50 binoculars, making my last-observed flash correspondingly earlier than his due to him seeing fainter magnitudes, I'm pretty sure.) I wish I could determine the phase shift time, but it's just a bit too tricky given my rustic observing method. I have a bit of a problem in doing PPAS reports on it, because of its phase shift. Its actual flash period now is 22.6 seconds, but because of the phase shift and not being able to report half-period counts, if I report the actual 22.6 period, I cannot include some cycles. So, which of the following is the correct PPAS report? 89- 41 A 02-11-14 03:22:03.0 EC 418.1 0.2 37 11.30 +3.5->inv 89- 41 A 02-11-14 03:22:03.0 EC 339.0 0.2 15 22.60 +3.5->inv 2002-11-14 observing site: 30.309N, 97.728W, 150m. 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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