But I did see ISS. So I guess STS 97 was quite a bit fainter. Conditions were poor, mostly variable high cirrostratus with some thin spots. Oh, and it was dawning twilight also -- but the passes were opposite the Sun. Maybe another chance tomorrow. Possible Orion 3 very bright flash at 12:27:34.0 Dec. 2 UTC. Site: 30.308N, 97.727W, 150m. A few hours earlier the sky was pretty nice and I spent about 45 minutes outside my apartment looking unsuccessfully for one-power Telstar 401 flashes. Limiting magnitude was about 3.5 I think. Thanks to Paul Maley for reporting his obs. I plan to keep trying as weather permits. For east coast USA flashing/classified geosynch observers -- Rainer Kracht has been reporting on DSP 16, and when I saw his mention that it's drifting westward I checked last night and got predictions for it about 20 degrees up in the east. So it should be well placed for the USA east coast! 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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