Friday night I observed 3 different flashing satellites. First, the Milstar 3 rocket (#25725) made a 78-deg pass, flashing to +3 about once per second. Some minutes later Centaur 2 (#00694) made a similar pass but of course was varying much more slowly with its 40ish second period (I didn't measure it). It also peaked about +3. Lastly, I saw Superbird A (#20040) through binoculars. When I first trained my binoculars on the sat -- at about 03:20 UTC (Apr 22) -- it was flashing with an ~11.5 sec period; all flashes were about the same brightness. I dashed inside to get my watch, then found it flashing half as often. I measured 5 periods in 115.2 seconds. The flashes faded to invisibility about 03:26 UTC. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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