I wrote, mistakenly: "Earlier tonight I saw GStar 1 (85-35A, 15677) flashing brightly at about 4:30-37 UTC, near RA 11:40, Dec +5.5." Mike got a position last night and has determined that this was in fact NASA's ACTS (22796, 1993-058B), which was very close to the position of GStar 1. Its flash pattern is complex, but the flashes occur at different multiples of about 25.7 seconds. Some of them are probably visible without magnification. We watched it from about 4:02 to 4:24 UTC, RA 11:15-37, Dec roughly +6 to +5.5. Mike sent the following link to information about ACTS. https://acts.grc.nasa.gov/ Last night by accident I saw another flashing geosynch in the southwest. I think that it may have been GStar 4 (20946, 90-100B). Observed about 2:11 to 2:13:20 UTC, RA about 7:54, Dec +4.2. This one's identity is not certain and needs to be confirmed. The flash period was very short for a flashing geosynch, only about 7.2 seconds. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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