93-56B/#22788, U?? 2 Rk

Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 16 Oct 1997 03:32:10 -0400

So, is #22788/93-56B called UHF 2 Rk or UFO 2 Rk or what...?
Anyway, for those who can observe it, I've boosted my Quicksat
intrinsic magnitude for it to 1.3 in order to try to match it
to my observations, and Wednesday evening in the bright light 
of the full Moon on a perfectly beautiful night, at least a 
couple of dozen people at a full-Moon observing event were 
able to see it at one-power as it flashed every 7 seconds from
SW to SE.  It's interesting also because its flashes vary.
Occasionally it does a pronounced double max, and there are
other variations, especially as its phase angle gets fuller.
If the formal flash reports weren't such a royal pain the ###, 
I'd probably send in a report on it (and on some other ones -- 
such as Hipparcos flashing every 8.__ seconds about 14 months
ago [when I, with newbie's luck, happened to see it completely 
by accident while looking at Saturn in Mike's telescope, and 
then he timed it for several minutes]).  

So anyway, Tuesday night Mike and I observed 97-17B and 
Gorizont 23 (91-46A, 21533), and flash reports are in process 
due to Mike getting and/or helping me to get data -- if only 
the data would fit into the @&#%&$#&@ PPAS format!  And if 
only it weren't such a royal pain in the ### to do those 
@$#@%@#$ reports....  It takes me 30 minutes to *try* to do 2 
of them correctly.  Sheesh!

Ed Cannon
ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Austin, Texas, USA -- 30.3086N, 97.7279W, 165m