Ed Cannon reported another recent event on Mar.31 with magnitudes to +2 at 6700 km range. His Apr.08 was +0 at about the same range, mine were initially -2 at 5800 km. Ed's Mar.31 flashes were at RA 10:41, dec.+62 to 11:17 +60.5. His Apr.08 were 07:12 +52.5 to 07:27 +53, mine were 10:06 +30 to 10:50 +24. Although there is a precession of about 1 d/day of the flash cone, this is far from the straight line I assumed. It may mean that there is more than one specular surface angle wrt. the rotation axis, or a very narrow flash cone. The long arc I observed makes the small cone unlikely (see plot) so I suggest you (also?) observe along the line of Ed's observations. I would like to defer analysis until at least two more obs (or one + one non-obs) have appeared. Ed measured 30.8 seconds on flash #1,#3,#4,#5, with a secondary 7.3 s before #3. I found 31.14 s, with secondaries 7.4 s before AND 8.8 s after the primary flashes (they were +4 to +6) -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2615 N, 18.6206 E, 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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