After a period of nice and warm weather it changed this afternoon. It's clouded now, with a chance of rain. I've a backlog in reporting obs. This morning I saw 4 satellites. 1 earth, the moon and 3 sun sats, Saturn, Venus and Mercury. I first used my bino's to locate Mercury, but then it was easy naked eyed. Nice view next to Regulus. I've seen Mercury naked eyed before, but never so bright. The URL explaning the numbers : http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat 01- 56 F 04-09-08 21:12:31 LB 202.0 1.0 4 50.5 MM, 4->i Timings: 45.35 53.43 57.72 45.53 sec. 03- 37 C 04-09-08 20:33:10 LB 72.8 0.5 8 9.1 AA, 4->i Timings: 8.10 10.02 9.22 9.15 8.75 8.96 9.19 9.42 sec. 04- 21 B 04-09-08 20:27:56 LB 173.5 0.2 220 0.788 FF, 3->i Timings every 10th flash:7.81 7.88 7.92 7.82 8.05 7.86 7.81 8.00 7.87 7.79 8.01 7.76 7.97 7.97 7.87 7.83 7.97 8.01 7.77 8.11 7.69 7.69 sec. Timed 7.19 and 7.32 sec here after, and then sat became almost S 04- 22 B 04-09-08 21:04 LB S, 5 61- 28 A 04-09-08 20:18:45 LB 116.3 0.5 5 23.3 AA, 8->i Timings: 48.46 20.27 25.67 21.88 sec. 76- 19 A 04-09-08 19:17:11 LB 54.0 0.2 10 5.40 FF, 4->i, sm, 5 Timings: 5.50 5.22 5.37 5.45 5.40 5.40 5.44 5.44 5.48 5.40 sec. 76- 19 A 04-09-09 19:51:03 LB 92.4 0.2 17 5.44 Ff, 3(5)->i Timings: [2.76 2.67] [2.76 266] [2.84 2.61] 5.49 5.36 then a series of rapid flashes lasting 38.14 sec, 5.51 5.50 5.27 5.48 5.35 sec. 81-119 B 04-09-08 20:05:28 LB 273.6 0.2 31 8.83 Ff, 6(7)->i Timings: 8.72 35.61 44.04 8.61 8.92 8.76 8.85 8.76 17.72 8.77 9.00 8.93 8.56 8.87 17.63 17.59 9.03 8.75 8.90 17.62 sec. Used my 16x50 bino to observe this high sat. 81-119 B 04-09-09 20:25:59 LB 246.3 0.2 28 8.80 Ff, 5(7)->i Timings: 8.28 8.72 17.52 9.03 9.17 8.42 8.72 8.92 17.47 9.00 8.68 8.92 8.75 9.10 8.69 8.89 8.64 8.83 26.42 9.00 8.73 8.81 8.73 8.87 sec 92- 76 B 04-09-09 20:00 LB almost S, 3 93- 16 B 04-09-08 19:32:18 LB 55.1 0.5 7 7.9 AA, 5->i Timings: 7.87 9.50 6.68 7.82 7.67 7.22 8.37 sec. Timed 11.52 and 11.73 sec before these. 93- 50 A 04-09-08 20:48:37 LB 43.7 0.5 3 14.6 AA, 5->i Timings: [3.87 6.38 4.64] [3.58 6.53 4.22] [3.55 6.68 4.24] sec 93- 50 A 04-09-09 20:34:51 LB 79.2 0.2 5 15.84 FF, 3(4)->i Timings: [11.42 3.22] [14.77 [11.21 3.58] [3.22 6.88 3.47] [4.40 2.85 3.67] [3.50 3.67 3.34] sec. 94- 10 C 04-09-08 20:37:33 LB 77.3 0.5 6 12.9 AA, 4->i Timings: 12.48 13.17 11.83 13.41 12.63 13.78 sec. 94- 10 C 04-09-09 20:41:05 LB 123.4 0.5 10 12.3 AA, 4->7 Timings: 10.46 12.93 11.87 12.77 12.36 12.01 13.86 11.72 12.31 13.10 sec. 96- 51 B 04-09-08 20:22 LB almost S, 4.5 96- 71 B 04-09-08 20:54:55 LB 111.8 0.5 3 37.3 AA, 4->7 Timings: 38.09 39.34 34.35 sec. Timed 10.28 3.94 4.97 sec before. 97- 30 A 04-09-08 19:26:30 LB 106.5 0.5 10 10.6 AA, 4->i Timings: 10.45 10.57 10.81 10.08 11.04 10.49 10.45 11.02 10.68 10.86 sec. 97- 30 A 04-09-09 20:31:13 LB 74.4 0.2 7 10.63 Ff, 3->i, sm, 4 Timings: [8.67 2.17] 10.59 10.65 10.82 10.31 10.63 10.60 sec. 2004: 570 obs PPAS: 13625 obs Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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