Hi Bram, I serendipitously observed a nice flashing satellite on July 31 for less than a minute around 21h 55.3m UT with the naked eye in the SGE, CYG, PEG area. Using Calsky I identified it later as Topex-Poseidon 1992-52A (object 22076) i=66°. The variation in brigthness was complex and irregular, essentially a few very brief flashes at mag 3 or even brighter, most of time the satellite remaining invisible. I lost the satellite when the flashes vanished as I couldn't find it again using binoculars. No photometric period was derived, yet it is clearly a matter of only a few seconds (4 ??). Regards Alain Figer 48.67°N , 2.13° E, 170 m a.s.l. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20110803/51f0d3e6/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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