Hi All, Looks like Paul and I were timing Cosmos 2282 (#23168) at about the same time, though clouds prevented me from timing it as long as he. Here's Paul's report: Cosmos 2282 (23168) 94- 38 A 02-09-09 04:44.2 PG 4264.8 0.1 205 20.804 +4/+6->inv And here's mine: Cosmos 2282 94- 38A 02-09-09 04:08:30.6 RM 1913.94 0.05 92 20.8037 +4/+6.5 --> inv The 20.8037 figure should be accurate to +/- .0005 seconds, so Paul's reading and mine are in perfect agreement. While timing it, I saw a number of intermittent flashes at irregular intervals to the west of Cosmos 2282, but could never pin down the exact location, or even verify that it was a single object producing the flashes. Whatever it was, it was not flashing very often nor very bright (+7?) -- period was greater than 2 minutes. Spotted three dim satellites crossing my binocular field of view while timing 94-038A. Two of these were flying side- -by-side trajectories headed south which I later identified as USA 32 and Cosmos 2389 R/B. USA 32 was by far the brighter of the two -- perhaps magnitude +4, while Cosmos 2389 R/B was flashing fairly rapidly with +5 peaks and +8 minima. Stopwatch was occupied at the time ;-), so can only estimate the period as being between 3 and 5 seconds. The other satellite observed was Cosmos 1241 R/B which was at least two magnitudes dimmer than the predicted +5.4. Usual viewing location in Newport Coast, CA. Will forward report to PPAS tomorrow for Cosmos 2282. --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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