Thanks very much to Steve LaLumondiere for his report on LES 8 (76-023A, 08746)! Last night -- September 9/10 -- I managed to see three flashes from it. They were not very bright: ------ 4:17:06.7 Sept. 10 UTC (last decimal place rounded) 126.07 4:19:12.8 252.56 4:23:25.3 Two nights ago I saw it 50 minutes later. It seems that it's flashing quite a bit earlier from night to night. Obviously the Sun is going south rapidly, which may be making the flash track move north. The actual times from two nights ago were (five of them -- obviously I was too tired to count past four when I sent a message the other morning): ------ 5:06:55.5 Sept. 8 UTC 128.13 5:09:03.7 124.10 5:11:07.8 124.09 5:13:11.85 126.56 5:15:18.4 The second or third flash was *very* bright. I was using the 8x42, and I thought it could have been zero magnitude. To eastern hemisphere people, I'm sorry that this one is trapped on this side of the world, by the Andes I'm told. As Kevin Fetter has mentioned already, "flaring geosat season" has begun! Here's a link to more information on that for any who don't know about this very interesting phenomenon: http://satobs.org/seesat/Feb-2005/0216.html I've looked for them for a couple of evenings, but it's still too early in the season here. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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