Last night Lacrosse 5 (05-016A, 28646) "disappeared"
(suddenly got about four magnitudes fainter) and then
"reappeared" (suddenly brightened about the same). The
times of the sudden magnitude changes were:
much fainter at about 2:02:21 UTC
much brighter at about 2:03:39
This was seen from the BCRC site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m.
Also last night I was able to spot three (faintly) flaring
geosats with my 12x60 binoculars. They were probably not
brighter than magnitude +8. It's still a couple of weeks
until the real flaring geosat time for our latitude, so
these were early to the season. Also, they were all seen
in the area roughly 45 degrees west of shadow entry - two
at about RA 21:20, Dec -5 (one at about 3:06 UTC and the
other at about 3:45 UTC), and the third at about 21:01, -5
(at about 4:40:50 UTC). Mike got the second one in the
scope and found a second one right beside it, separated
by two seconds or less of time. I have not yet tried to
identify them.
I've made some unsuccessful efforts to see Brad's unknown
slowly flashing object but am somewhat limited due to my
binoculars not being mounted.
Two nights ago I saw an unknown west-to-east object at
about +4.5 magnitude ... sigh.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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