I was able to do some observing in spite of considerable cirrus. The one I saw last night with a 113-second flash period was Telstar 401 (89-041A, 20040). Tele-X had drifted several degrees to the west. This episode was cut short by a large, dense mass of cirrus. PPAS report: 93- 77 A 03-11-26 03:26:19 EC 564.9 0.4 5 113.0 0.0?->inv (cirrus) Superbird A (89-041A, 20040) through the cirrus -- A few of the flashes were smeared out due to the intervening cloud layer. I saw it from 3:09:35 to 3:15:00 Nov 26 UTC. There was a single flash very near Superbird A at about 3:11:43.0. I didn't see another one during the next three-plus minutes. It seems that Eutelsat 2 (84-081A, 15158) may have been in the proper place to have been the source of that flash, slightly higher and south of Superbird A. The clouds made it hard to get much better than that position. Previously Paul Gabriel saw one flashing low in the west that seemed to be matched by Eutelsat 2. Maybe someone can confirm it for certain on this round. Location: E. Ney Museum grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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