Flashes from two observed without binoculars: 93-077A, 22927, Telstar 401 -- 6 flashes, about 134 seconds apart, +1 max (easy to understand how the people in the hot-tub in Houston were able to see it), from about 2:33:32.2 to 2:54:40.9. 89-041A, 20040, Superbird A -- 4 flashes, about 22.6 seconds, +3 max, after phase shift, I think, from about 3:27:43.6 to 3:28:51.3. Probably a few of this next one's flashes would have been visible without binoculars: 90-077A, 20771, BS/Yuri 3A -- very peculiar flash pattern, my times for a few bright ones were from about 4:26:13.5 until 4:36:36.7. In binoculars I saw one very bright flash not far from Superbird A. It may have been Intelsat 510 (85-025A, 15629), which has been out of service for about three years. Mike watched the spot through his 12x80 finder scope (3-degree FOV) for several minutes but saw only Superbird A flashes. Gorizont 14 (87-040A, 17969) was again easy with binoculars. MOS 1-A (87-018A, 17527) made a spectacular flashing pass. NOAA 14 (94-089A, 23455) flared three times. NOAA 6 (11416) PPAS report, maxima not sharp: 79- 57 A 02-11-25 01:40:47 EC 147.5 4.0 6 25 FUSE (99-035A, 25791) was fairly easy to see without binoculars. ISS and Space Shuttle, pretty bright for as low as they were in the south; I got that they were a little over five minutes apart. They both went pretty near alpha and beta Grus. Observing site was BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Weather/cloud models don't look very promising for the next few evenings. 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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