Hello all. I had an opportunity to make an extended observation of Telstar 401 on 11/22/00. As Paul Maley pointed out, there is an additional flash about 5 seconds from the primary. Whether it occurs before or after the primary seems to depend on the observers location, as I have it coming after the primary from my viewing location. The secondary flash was only visible every other 167 seconds and possibly only periodically throughout the cycle. The basic pattern was: 162s, 5s, 167s, 162s, 5s, 167s (one set of these consisted of 16 primary flashes), changing to: 167s, 167s (for 8 consecutive flashes), and finally returning to 162s, 5s, 167s... While I suppose that it is possible that this pattern repeats, a single observation is not very convincing. I have all of the flash times (lap and elapsed) on paper, but have yet to incorporate them into an electronic format. Observed through 10x50s. PPAS: 93- 77 A 00-11-22 09:51:07 SDL 0.5 35 167.37 dT=5857.9 F'fF'->F'F' Gorizont 14 has also been visible from the western portion of the U.S. during this pass. The period has been decreasing since sometime in August when it reached a max of about 87.94s, on 12/01/00 the period was 86.72s. Best and clear, dark skies. Steve LaLumondiere 33.820, -118.316 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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