This is just to mention that I've added to my Flashing Geosynchs page some links to some pages by Jason Hatton that have more details and history on some of the flashing geosynchs. (My apologies to Jason for not thinking of his pages first thing the other day. I thought that Jason sent a re-introduction to SeeSat in the last couple of months, but I haven't been able to find it in the online archives.) Also thank you to Mike Waterman for sending some additional data on a few more of these objects: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/flashinggeos.html Cosmos 2282 PPAS from first night: 94- 38 A 02-09-03 05:35:52.7 EC 6323.8 0.3 303 20.870 +5->inv I timed it for only about 15 minutes last night but haven't gotten my stopwatch data ready yet. Cosmos 2344 (97-028A, 24827) was faintly visible without binoculars, so it must have been at least +4.0. I'm hoping for even better passes, weather permitting. It's in a pretty high orbit. Best SPOT 3 (93-061A, 22823) pass I've seen in months -- a couple of bright, very sharp specular flashes as well as some other very bright maxima. Saw a fast-moving low-inclination object called VEP (94-007B, 22979) at magnitude +3 at least, plus another one crossed with it. Saw two southbound flocks of birds crossing satellites last night. I've been surprised how often I see flocks of birds flying late at night. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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