Last night (a repeat performance for the third night in a row, I believe) GE 1 (24315, 96-054A) was about +4.0 (brighter than 3 AQR (+4.4, RA 20:47:42.6, Dec -5.02, 2000), faintly visible without binoculars for several minutes. Even brighter was Intelsat 709 (23915, 96-035A), which for a few minutes was brighter than +3.6 iota Ceti (RA 00:19:26.6, Dec -8.82, 2000). BCRC observing site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m We were clouded out early last night. Regarding the previous night I wrote: >one of these two close ones: >20872, 90-091A, SBS 6, or >20873, 90-091B, Galaxy 6 Mike reminded me that SBS 6 was the brighter one of those two (by a lot). Regarding the fast flasher, Cosmos 2157 Rk (21734, 91-068G, a SL-14 R/B), last night Mike observed it with his 200mm scope and got a 2-second or 4-second flash period, depending on interpretation. So it may not qualify for Dan's list of the fastest ones. I don't know what the date was on the 1-second notation that I had on my magnitude file. 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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