For Mike Chini's observation, it may have been a Glonass. Using a rather large "box" around RA 8:00, Dec. +20 (between Pollux and Saturn), I got three Glonass candidates between 10:30 and 11:00 PM EST (UTC -5:00) for Staten Island, NY. I think that Heavens-Above recently gave me a prediction for Iridium 16 (24841, 97-030F), which is another tumbling one -- I remembered after not seeing anything when I had a bright prediction. But I may be mis-remembering that the prediction was from H-A. Earlier tonight I looked for Raduga 16 (85-070A, 15946) and found two flashing objects in the vicinity, within one degree of each other. It looks like the best candidate is Gorizont 10 (84-078A, 15144). One of them had a flash period of about 58.2 seconds, and the other, which faded pretty quickly, was flashing about every 53.n seconds. I first saw them at about RA 13:40-45, and the one with 58.2-second flash period was visible for at least 30 minutes. But I wasn't able to get a good enough position to determine for sure which was which. I think this was the first time at the BCRC site in 20 nights, due mainly to unfavorable weather. But tonight was very pretty. Mike went Monday evening, but I wasn't able to get away from the office in time to go (and almost didn't make it tonight either). Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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