Willie Koorts: >I tried my own identification of it using Skymap and the best candidate >seems to be NORAD 08027 Meteor 2-1 r > >Is this known to be a bright flasher or was I just fortunate to have a >good pass? Was I perhaps seeing another satellite? > You could check the PPAS (Flash) database on WWW - I don't have the time. I ran SkyMap with el961004, magn 7, range 3000 km, and found little more. NOSS 2-3 Rk 1 23907U 96029 B 96259.84022896 0.00012700 00000-0 12318-3 0 08 2 23907 63.4264 193.3130 0237000 159.3031 200.6969 15.38062695 09 should pass from NNW - 69 degrees - SSE, flash, and be bright. ------------------------------------------------------------ -- b_gimle@algonet.se +46-8-7428086 (home) -- -- 59.22371 N, 18.22857 E AND member of : -- -- http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle seesat-l / seesat-d -- -- bjorn@tt-tech.se +46-8-59095783 (office)-- ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us at Eurosom 2, the Satellite Observers Meeting: Oct.19/20 ! Ghent, Belgium http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/eurosom.html ---