Someone who I'm pretty sure is in the North American Pacific Time Zone (UTC-7 during daylight savings time) reports seeing over the last few evenings a repeating flash in Virgo every 4 to 7 minutes, anywhere between 9:30 and 11:00 p.m. local time (4:30 and 6:00 UTC, if the location is NA PDT): http://earthsky.com/BBS/Observers-Notebook/423x0.html I've sent a follow-up (which won't appear until tomorrow). If the reported flash period were very close to two minutes, I'd feel sure it's Telstar 401. But it might be Raduga 21 or some other one. Does someone in the Pacific time zone want to try to confirm it? Different topic: Someone has asked about predictions (for South Africa specifically) for the upcoming Soyuz mission to ISS. Are any pre-launch predicted elements available? The weather here recently has been very frustrating! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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