Went on a nice dark sky trip last weekend to see Comets Hoenig and SWAN. 8/10 PDT saw evening passes of 20580 HST, 24277 ADEOS, 25861 Okean-O r, 16262 Cosmos 1703, & 19650 Cosmos 1980 r from Yucca Valley, CA. The last 2 passed each other in Ophiuchus in the SW sky, both a little brighter than predicted at mag 3.5. 8/11 PDT saw morning passes of 22782 Meteor 2-21 from the N end of Joshua Tree NP, through square of Pegasus, mag 3. Also 14484 Cosmos 1508 r at mag 2 & 25063 TRMM. 8/11 PDT saw evening passes of Iridium 914tum from Big Bear. 2 flashes about every 12 s, occasionally to mag 0, visible between flashes at about mag 4. There was an UNID, and I had to use Alan's satbase.tle to ID this one: 26118 CBERS LM4 deb E. Mag 3 as it pased over Deneb. The elset from satbase.tle contains no standard magnitude, so Skymap assumed standard mag 7 & predicted mag 5.8. Seems likely that this was flaring, so I'm not sure we can use this sighting to assign a standard magnitude: CBERS LM4 deb E 1156 x 677 km 1 26118U 99057E 02219.65732922 .00003144 00000-0 15557-2 0 4978 2 26118 98.9058 276.5188 0328154 31.2971 330.7218 13.93545693121817 Also saw 25544 ISS, 25861 Okean-O r, 20580 HST, 19650 Cosmos 1980 r at mag 3, 27053 Cosmos 2383, 20580 HST on a bright pass reaching mag 0 before shadow entry. Big Bear location: lat 34.29 long -116.81 altitude ~6800 ft Best, Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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