Kevin wrote: > At 4:29 UT, a titan 4 rocket was launched.... The Spaceflightnow.com mission timeline says interesting events will occur shortly after T+5:49 (10:18 UTC): http://www.spaceflightnow.com/titan/b36/030818ascent.html If the weather is okay and I last that long, I'll try to see if a +3 magnitude artificial nebula appears high in the SSE (roughly longitude 95 west). Last night I confirmed Cosmos 1341 (82-016A, 13080) as the slow-moving one I saw the other night. This time I watched it off and on for about 26 minutes. Its flash period of 12.9 seemed to have a longish brighter-fainter supercycle unrelated to its decreasing range. I finally couldn't find it again while it was still near Polaris. Its brightest maxima seemed to be at least +4.5. Its height and range decrease as it nears Polaris, so it might be quite good from northern USA and Canada. Its mean motion is about 2.006, so its passes are just a little earlier each night. The partly cloudy conditions earlier in the evening didn't allow me to watch Raduga 33 with binoculars, but it did one -2 flash at about 1:35:16.2 September 9 UTC. Grace 1 and 2 (02-012A & B, 27391, 27392) flared brightly in the NW at roughly 2:34, separated by about 30 seconds. The leader was brighter. NOSS 2-1 (90-050C, D, & E) were quite bright in the NW on their way south into eclipse. Observing site was Ney Museum: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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