Telstar 401 (22927) was flashing last night. Its flash period has slowed down several seconds since a couple of months ago. Mike McCants looked for but did not see any half-period maxima in his telescope. Here's PPAS report: 93- 77 A 02-09-06 05:09:26.9 EC 1329.2 0.2 5 265.84 +4.0->inv I saw it when looking for GStar 1 (15677, 85-035A), which has a much shorter flash period, and which I didn't see. Kept trying at multiples of both objects' flash periods (or half-period for Telstar 401) and managed to see the second flash. I happened to see an extra first magnitude star in Oph; it was at about 17:15, -9 or -10. "Mike, that's not a star, is it? There's not supposed to be a bright star there, right?" It was moving quite slowly. It was Milstar 3 (99-023A, 25724). It stayed brighter than +3 for at least a minute if not two. Cosmos 2282 PPAS report: 94- 38 A 02-09-06 04:04:07.9 EC 2229.7 0.3 107 20.838 +4.5->inv I saw one I can't ID with alldat; got three rough positions: 2002/09/06 UTC; 2000 coordinates 02:43:48 17:28, +1.3 (crossed with Cosmos 1900 (87-101A, 18665). 02:44:21.5 near 17:43.5, +4.57 02:44:45.3 near 18:00.3, +4.35 One UNID brightened to +3 twice as it went south. It was Cosmos 1934 (88-023A, 18985). It looked like a slowly tumbling Zenit, seen without binoculars. BCRC site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. 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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