Re: One Flash

From: Edward S Light (light@argoscomp.com)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2006 - 13:58:03 EDT

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    Earlier, Brad Young asked ...
    
    > From: "Brad Young" <brad.young@domain-engineering.com>
    > To: "SeeSat" <seesat-l@satobs.org>
    > Subject: One Flash
    > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:40:05 -0500
    >
    > Its raining for once, and I have some chance to review many observations for
    > UNIDs seen recently. I had seen one bright (mag +3 or better) flash last
    > night, naked eye, with cirrus clouds in area, 10-15 deg NNE of Antares. I
    < ... stuff deleted ... >
    > NORAD 25727, INTL 99024A, Orion 3
    >
    > I thought it was moving to east fairly fast, which would point to the
    > debris, 532 vs 2122 miles range. Anyone have any experience with Orion 3
    > being a flasher?
    
    I observed Orion 3 (25727 99-024A) on four different passes from June to
    October 1999 and on one of them (1999 June 20/02:02 UTC) noted a "brief
    flare to magnitude [approx] 3.4"; on 1999 October 12/23:43 UTC, I noted
    "maximum flash to magnitude 0.8 [approximately]". During the other two
    passes, it was between 5-1/2 and 7 magnitude.
    
    Clear and dark skies!
       Ed Light
    
    Lakewood, NJ, USA
    Site 8840, N 40.1075, W 074.2312, +24 m (80 ft)
    
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