I've been forgetting to mention that here we've been having some very spectacular Iridium 920 (97-034C, 24871). Almost always, recently, the flashes have been south of culmination on these southbound evening passes. In spite of how rapidly it's spinning, some of the flashes are as bright as -1 or -2. Mike McCants and I watched another one the other night that was doing something I don't remember seeing it do -- a single maximum, followed by a triple maximum (with the three flashes separated by about .8 second), single, triple, etc. This was Intelsat 4-7 Rk (73-058B, 06797). Given the alternating maxima, I got a flash period of about 6.6 seconds overall. Flaring geosats have been pretty good the last few nights. Note that these are seasonal, as opposed to "flashing geosynchs" -- an entirely different phenomenon. 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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