My obs of NOAA 7, 1981- 59 A, in 2001: 81- 59 A 01-01-24 17:33:20 LB 57.0 0.5 9 6.3 AA, 6->i 81- 59 A 01-01-25 18:58 LB almost S, 5 81- 59 A 01-02-13 19:03:24 LB 69.7 0.2 17 4.10 FF, 4->i 81- 59 A 01-02-15 18:33:13 LB 33.4 0.5 4 8.3 AA, 4->i 81- 59 A 01-03-12 18:45:47 LB 43.2 0.2 10 4.32 AA, 4->6 81- 59 A 01-04-08 20:10:35 LB 45.1 0.2 21 2.15 FF, 5->i 81- 59 A 01-04-21 20:09:41 LB 191.4 0.2 22 8.70 FF, 4->i, sm, 6 As you can see the periods seems to vary, but this is due to the fact that sometimes secondary flashes are bright and also counted. even flashes in between as on April 8th. The corrected "main'' period becomes: 4.20 --- 4.10 4.15 4.32 4.30 4.35 sec This fits well with Marks obs of ''every 5 seconds or so''. Greetings Leo Barhorst Original message: ------------------------------------- Mark Harris wrote: > On 20th April, 2001 at 21.24 BST (20.24 GMT), I spotted a flashing > satellite <snip> . It > was flashing every 5 seconds or so. Ted Molczan wrote: NOAA 7, a known flasher, seems to be a good match in terms of time, proximity to Castor and Pollux and direction of travel: NOAA 7 3.7 1.9 0.0 6.1 v 5.70 1 12553U 81059A 01110.13323505 -.00000050 00000-0 -39989-5 0 6755 2 12553 98.5215 153.3715 0010882 269.4256 90.5665 14.16275778 23606 I used Findsat to make the identification. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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