Thanks, Ed, your new (old) observations changed the pole (to 12:06, +76), but reduced the standard deviation, and since the surface cone angle increased to about 72 degrees, the conclusions are almost unchanged. The model also explains(?) your non-obs On Aug.30: you should have seen flashes around 01:29, but on the next orbit they would be just over the W horizon. Unfortunately this seems to be the case yesterday and tonight as well. I include below the RA/dec (hh.dd dd.d) of some flash locations for 2000-09-03. There is a good chance for observers further N, e.g. for Don Gardner at lat +39.2, long -76.8 there should be a long series of flashes on the early pass ( beginning near the Moon at 00:45, ending 00:52 UT on Sep.03 and 00:40 Sep.04) and a few 1-power flashes around 02:37 UT on Sep.03. Skymap users, edit the "Or3/" lines into the deepsky.txt file, others plot the RA/Dec on a map, and connect the dots. HH.hh D.dd M.m "Or3/903","Or3/903",10.09,12.57,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",10.52,9.51,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",10.96,6.63,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",11.40,3.95,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",11.85,1.49,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",12.31,-0.75,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",12.78,-2.74,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",13.26,-4.48,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",13.74,-5.97,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",14.23,-7.19,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",14.73,-8.15,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",15.23,-8.86,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",15.74,-9.33,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",16.24,-9.56,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",16.75,-9.58,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",17.26,-9.41,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",17.77,-9.06,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",18.29,-8.57,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",18.79,-7.97,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",19.30,-7.27,0.6 "Or3/903","Or3/903",19.81,-6.50,0.6 -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- -- SeeSat-L / Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at -- -- http://www2.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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