From the Ney Museum grounds I saw four or possibly five flashes from LES 8 (73-023A, 08746) without binoculars, beginning at 2:11:32 UTC. They were at intervals of about 3 minutes, 29.5 seconds -- a flash period 16 seconds slower than six nights ago. And the episode was -- very roughly -- about an hour earlier than October 1. The last flash that I saw with my 8x binoculars was at 2:49:57. When I first saw it, it was a few degrees southeast of Altair, roughly 20 hours RA, Dec +5, roughly. I watched bright flashes from Cosmos 2105 (90-099A, 20941) for about 90 seconds, from 1:38:33 until 1:40:10 -- still southwest (above and right) of the Great Square of Pegasus. With the 8x binoculars I also saw AMC-16 (04-048A, 28472), but it's now flaring a few degrees east of lambda Aquilae, although at about the same time (roughly 2:35 UTC). The moonlight was brutal, so I gave up pretty soon after 10 PM local time. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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