No success so far. I have observed around the orbit plane transit time on both of local evenings of 26th and 27th december from about 12:25 to 13:00 UT on 25th and 12:27 to 13:03UT on 27th. Observing naked eye. I cant observe with binoculars for such a long interval, though I had them to hand. I expect USA129 to flare at least once anyway. Around 12:30 UT on Dec 27 saw what must have been a tumbling iridium, with short but not strobe=like peaks that reached mag -5 at least, some 5 seconds apart for 5-6 glints. The observing conditions have been perfect since dec 23, with clear nights every night. Thisis common at this time of year. Back in 1987 i made magnitude estimates of Supernova 1987A on 16 succrssive nights over the Xmas-New year period. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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