Tonight ETS 6 (Kiku 6; 23230, 94-056A) will do a pass and based on Mike Chini's observation the other night, it may be spectacular. It would be nice if observers in widely spaced locations were to observe it more or less simultaneously -- if possible. (I don't know if the weather here will be favorable.) I checked heavens-above.com via its "Select Satellite", but it did not give a prediction for tonight, presumably because the satellite's normally expected magnitude would be very faint. But ETS 6/Kiku 6 is not run of the mill. I'm really pretty sure that it's what Mike saw the other night, and its maxima were +1 magnitude, every five or six seconds, at a range of about 10,000 miles (16,000 km), more or less. Mike saw it basically in Sextans at about 2:50 UTC, and it will be similarly located tonight. Friday morning here we had passes of ISS and 13 minutes later the new Soyuz, but unfortunately the sky was overcast. 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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