After much unfavorable weather for central Texas, we had a pretty nice evening (got to see the current five-planet line-up)! Here are three bright geosynchs plus one LEO -- Telstar 401 (22927): Mike McCants pointed his telescope at it and said, "Wow!" Soon after that I saw four easy one-power flashes; PPAS 93- 77 A 02-04-30 04:35:54.9 EC 996.6 0.5 8 124.6 +2->inv Its episodes are about 15 minutes earlier each night. The four one-power flashes that I saw were at: 3:01:23.34, 3:03:27.94, 3:05:32.31, 3:07:36.93 Intelsat 512 (16101): seen by accident when looking for UARS in WSW. This one is very similar to Superbird A -- (from a reasonably good location) can be seen without binoculars during the few minutes each evening when it flashes brightly, flash period is short; however, this one's episodes are about 15 minutes *later* each night; already pretty far in the west from here; PPAS 85- 87 A 02-04-30 03:17:48.9 EC 223.1 0.3 10 22.31 +5->inv Superbird A (20040): too much city sky glow to see without binoculars; PPAS (ending around apparent phase-shift time) 89- 41 A 02-04-30 02:54:58.3 EC 227.3 0.3 10 22.73 +3.5->inv NOAA 7 (12553): secondary maxima visible at either 1/4 or 3/4 cycle; PPAS 81- 59 A 02-04-30 02:45:59.4 EC 70.1 0.5 6 11.7 +4->inv BCRC observing location: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. 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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