Our weather here has not been cooperating fully this week, but using handheld 10x50 binoculars I've been able to see three flaring geostationary satellites -- Galaxy 11 (99-071A, 26038) on three nights, and on Sept. 20 UTC (Wednesday evening local) also Anik F1 (00-076A, 26624) and probably DirecTV (or DBS) 3 (95-029A, 23598). Did I mention that the other night Mike confirmed SCD 2 (98-060A, 25504) as a very rapid flasher? In fact I saw it do a few flashes visible at one-power even though its RCS is less than one square meter. Site was 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Weather permitted no observing tonight. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA (Using yahoo.com while above won't work.) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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