Hi all, Observed Geo Flasher: ATLAS CENTAUR R/B (#10779U) about 40 degrees high in the SW. 16 Sep 02 From 20:45 to 21:30 UTC. An easy target with big binos at 37x. I followed it for about 45 minutes cruising through Ophiuchus. I got timings for about half that time, To the best of my timings, it looks like it's flashing 4.66 seconds between maximas for a 12.88 RPM spin rate. It looks like a mag 10 to 10.5 and it looked like it was about 30 to 45 seconds too fast, which put it about 7 arc minutes in front of this elset: ATLAS CENTAUR R/B 1 04069U 69069B 02255.33908368 -.00000010 00000-0 10000-3 0 3971 2 04069 17.5133 86.3333 6677448 210.5256 83.2775 2.04791399247526 All in all a very interesting fast flasher. This is the fastest geo flasher I've seen. Maybe it's normal for a R/B. freundliche Grüsse, Russ Bessom - russbessom@desurf.com Zweibruecken Germany Lat 49.14.0 N / Long 7.19.0 E - 325m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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