Last night was unexpectedly somewhat clear for a while. I saw an UNID flasher that I've tentatively identified as possibly being 07032/73-086Y (NOAA 3 Delta Debris Y). However, 73-086DC (07138) made a very similar pass at nearly the same time, so I'm not sure which one I saw. Do any recent obs of either of them confirm a flash period (or sub- or super-period) of about 4.1 seconds? The Y piece has a larger RCS than the DC piece, which is why I'm assuming that's the one I saw. My stopwatch malfunctioned, so I only managed to time 8 cycles. Tentative PPAS report: 73- 86 Y 00-10-26 02:17:31.4 EC 32.6 0.3 8 4.08 mag +4.5->inv Observing location was E. Ney Museum grounds: 30.31N, 97.73W, 150m. I saw three one-power objects while walking home from my office, including very good passes of good old Resurs O1-3 Rk (23343, 94-074B) and Cosmos 2367 (26040, 99-072A) as bright as Deneb. Non-obs I tried to observe 90007 (00-653A [=98002?]) but could not find it; probably looking at wrong time. Its flash peak was at about 3:30 on Oct. 4. There was a pass of ETS/Kiku 6 (23230, 94-056A), but I wasn't prepared for a session and so didn't know when to look for bright flashes. When I looked, I couldn't find it. If Saturday night is clear here (not likely), it will make a pass during a star party. The sky clouded up before the Superbird A maximum. 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://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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