Hi Leo and List, > After a splendid clear evening yesterday in which I made 15 obs > to be reported later, I looked this morning for Superbird A. > As I didn't know the exact time when it was supposed te start > flashig, I started observing around 03 UT. At around 03:19 UT > I spotted a faint flash near the predicted spot for Superbird A, > to be sure I waited for the next flash, also a faint one. Then > I started timing on the next flash and could time 31 flashes > before it stopped flashing. Congrats on acquiring Superbird A on its latest run! My apologies for not responding to your earlier e-mail about when to look for Superbird A -- too busy w/work these days. Curious as to how accurate my 7-month old computed axis was holding up, I ran predictions for your location for 9/13/2002: the predicted center time was 3:20 UT -- perhaps 2 minutes earlier than what you observed. Not bad! So I'll hold off on updating the axis until we've got a few more measurements this month -- two minutes is plenty good for a 6- to 7-minute flasher. For early Tuesday morning, September 17th, here are the approximate center times (all UT) for the flash window for a few selected locations. (The 2-minute error based on Leo's obs has already been added so these times should be pretty accurate.) 3:17 Portugal 3:18 Spain 3:23 Paris 3:24 London, Switzerland, N. Italy 3:25 Belgium, Italy (Venice) 3:26 Edinburgh, Netherlands, Saltzburg, Munich 3:28 Denmark, N. Germany, Vienna 3:30 Southern Norway and Sweden --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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