All low N passes of USA 161 and 186 left me empty-handed because of a band of clouds - one of them instead because of a birch still carrying a lot of leaves, and no time to reposition and realign the scope. The same fate for #90027, descending in the S behind a dense, tall pine, too near a following USA 1xx pass. While waiting, I glimpsed a -0 mag flash below beta-gamma UMa, near RA 11:10 dec.+47, followed some 15 sec later by a double flash at about +2 m. Time 19:46:05 19:46:20 +- 10 s I did not perceive any change in position between the two observations, nor did I acquire any object in 7*50 binoculars. OPS 5268 (DMSP 5A F3) entered shadow a few degrees to the east - what else? Björn Gimle, 5919 Barndalen,Malma,Sweden,+018.6172 ,+59.2576 ,33 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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