For flashing Iridium fans, last night Iridium 14 (24836, 97-030A) did a great pass over here. It flashed one-power bright continuously from south to north. After starting out at only about +3 or so, it brightened to at least -1 before culmination and then faded some; then after culmination it began to do double flashes, first bright-faint, then bright-bright, then faint-bright, then back to single flashes. The brightest flashes of all were after culmination while it was in the general area of Cassiopeia, probably at least -3. Iridium 11 (24842, 97-030G) did some nice flashes also. EUVE (21987, 92-031A) flared pretty bright in the SW. It's about to be taken out of service: http://www.euvexplorer.com/save.html ISS and STS-97 were surprisingly bright low in the SSW with a bad phase angle; probably about +2 or so. I noticed in a photo of them docked that the shuttle appeared to have its black underside towards the Earth. Has it been that way since they docked? Observed from UT Austin campus, 30.286N, 97.739W, 150m. 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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