Thanks to Rick Baldridge for reporting his sighting of Telstar 401! From outside my apartment (a quite light-polluted area, and with some thin cirrus clouds this morning), just before 9:00 UTC, I found it a couple of degrees north of Rigel already flashing to +1 or possibly a magnitude brighter. (I wrote down "brighter than Rigel" for click #5 but when I was reminded that Rigel is +0.12, I wondered if I wrote it down wrong. [It's cold outside -- for Central Texas.]) These are slow flashes. It went from north of Rigel to just north of Orion's sword and on to the east of the belt before fading from view. Unfortunately, this one is still very close to geosynchronous, so only those of us in the Americas can see it for the time being. PPAS: 93- 77 A 00-11-21 09:28:58 EC 2014.1 0.3 12 167.84 mag +0.5->inv flash times zero time 8:54:00.00 (saw one before click 01 but misclicked and had to restart stopwatch) CL "Lap" Elapsed Time UTC ** (8:52:35.96) 01 0 1:23.86 8:55:23.80 02 2:47.68 4:11.54 8:58:11.48 03 2:47.84 6:59.38 9:00:59.32 04 2:47.83 9:47.21 9:03:47.15 05 2:47.84 12:35.05 9:06:34.99 +0 to +1 06 2:47.82 15:22.87 9:09:22.81 07 2:47.77 18:10.64 9:12:10.58 08 2:48.00 20:58.64 9:14:58.58 09 2:47.81 23:46.45 9:17:46.39 +3 10 2:47.99 26:34.44 9:20:34.38 11 2:47.77 29:22.21 9:23:22.15 (don't know why I missed one here; was looking for it) 12 5:35.70 34:57.91 9:28:57.85 (If there are errors in the UTC times above, it's because I manually calculated them and made a mistake. The lap and elapsed times were transcribed from my stopwatch.) Observing location 30.3086N, 97.7279W, 150m. 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://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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