On Sept. 25, Steve LaLumondiere posted: >The UNID was located at RA 23:46 and Dec. -13:35 at 05:44:10 UTC. It >flashes with a period of approximately 10 seconds and was visible between >05:43 and 05:45 UTC. >... it was quite bright (roughly >mag 3). From my location, it flashes very nearly the same time each night >for approximately 2 minutes, as seen in 10x50s. Ed and I saw this object for a few flashes last night. It stopped flashing very abruptly about 05:35 UT. Of course a 10 second period is suggestive of a DSP. Based on other positions from Steve and my guess for a position last night, my search orbit is: Unknown 1 99999U 05274.42710373 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 03 2 99999 7.6000 66.8400 0001000 356.0000 4.0000 1.00240000 00 The positions last night were close to ASC 1 (15994, 85 76C), Raduga 1-1 (20083, 89 48A), and Arabsat 1B (15825, 85 48C) and Ed spotted one of these. It flashed with a period of about 46 seconds from before 04:57 UT until after 05:17 UT. The flashes alternated bright/fainter and period 45 seconds/47 seconds. Before and after the fainter flashes there were many secondary brightenings to about magnitude 10 with a period of about 1/2 second. Ed also discovered GStar 4 (20946, 90 100B) flashing with a period of about 123 seconds. We watched it from about 03:20 UT until about 04:10 UT. All obs Oct. 2 UT from BCRC. We also observed 25 or so flaring geosyncs. Ed could see Direct TV 4S (26985, 01 52A) "one power" at about mag 3.5 about 03:08 UT. This was about 3 hours before its shadow entry. Mike McCants Austin, TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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