Wednesday evening, given an unexpected respite from cloud cover, from UT Austin campus near my office (~30.29N, 97.74W) I was looking for a very good (76 deg. culmination) pass of Lacrosse 2 (91-17A, 21147). Just a few seconds after it appeared (~~1:52:47 UT Thursday 10 April) at azimuth 346 and altitude 31, it brightened to approximately magnitude -2 and stayed there for about 1.0 to 2.0 seconds. Then it dropped back to predicted mags. The total length of the flare was 3 or 4 seconds. After that it continued to be a great pass of about 5 minutes, much of it brighter than magnitude 2.0. (I can't confirm the exact times because I had only my analog watch.) About 10 minutes earlier, Cosmos 2326 (95-71A, 23748) made a very good pass, 79 deg. culmination, as well. And in the west was Hale-Bopp just below Algol (beta Pers) and north of the 36-hour-old Moon. [Aside to Philip Chien (KC4YER@amsat.org), regarding: [ [>> ("Naked-eye" is a misnomer, since I wear glasses, but I'm don't know [>> of another term....) [> [>How about 'visually challeneged' [> [>;-) [ [Yes, but I was looking for a term that would express the idea of [observing without magnification and would be equally applicable to [naked-eye and glasses-wearing observers. How about "one-power...?"] Ed Cannon ecannon@mail.utexas.edu Austin, Texas, USA 30.308N, 97.728W