Regarding Thursday PM local time I wrote: > [Thursday] night Mike McCants and I hoped to see Tele-X (89-027A, 19919) > again but were not successful in spite of watching for at least 20 > minutes. We looked earlier last night (early Saturday UTC) and found it! It seems to flash at about the same time each night even though it's farther west. At one point (about 4:10:35.8) I was watching carefully in Mike's 8-inch scope for a faint flash, and my retina was nearly perforated by a flash of at least +2! Besides being so bright, this one is also interesting because it has a slow-motion phase shift. The flash period was about 189 seconds, but there was an "off-center" or asymmetrical secondary maximum that became the primary one, and during the phase shift, both maxima were only about +7 or so. So the two groups of bright flashes were something like nine or ten minutes apart. (I writing in a hurry due to needing to get going to San Antonio in a while, so I don't have all of the details available.) Observing location was 30.314 N, 97.866 W, 280 m. 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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