Hi All Whilst doing an orbit plane scan search last night (12 Sept) for a particular satellite I observed 28 satellites during the 160 minute scan. One of these satellites was quite exciting and Im sure will be of interest to others: Want to see a flashing satellite at a distance of about 22000 kilometres ? if so try #15698 85037B Cosmos 1651 which is a GLONASS satellite ( somewhat similar to NAVSTAR ). This satellite is flashing every 10.98 seconds and flashes to about magnitude +3 and is invisible in between flashes. The flash duration is about 1 second or so and it should be easy to pick up in binoculars. The satellite is in a stable orbit so it should be running on time. I will be reporting later on the other 27 satellites observed. Meanwhile the balance of my positional observations for 10 Sept will have to wait until after the weekend- I got sidetracked today by analysing my video tape of last night- took 6 hours to do the job! Enjoy the weekend Cheers Greg ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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