I finally got a chance to observe the rocket in the evening UT hours of 17-December and did not notice any flares! I used SatSpy for the predictions. Strangely, I did not see most of the satellites I had chosen even though I had never had problems with the program before! What is the "standard magnitude" referred to in the right column of the Viewing Opportunities window? Is this visual magnitude, like a star's mag? Or is it something else? Because some satellites were supposed to be at mag. 1 and I did not see them at all. And the prediction for Cosmos 975R said 2.2m, and it was barely visible to the naked eye (about 4-5m!)..... Clear skies, Ulrich > -----Original Message----- > From: KEVINISBADYA@aol.com [mailto:KEVINISBADYA@aol.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 7:10 AM > To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com > Subject: Cosmos 975 Rocket > > > Hi kevin Martin here, with NRB to let you know that Cosmos 975 Rocket is > Tumbling on all 3 axis's and can have Flares up to -5 at anytime. Ive > witnessed this > such event about 2 days ago and WOW! i took me by suprise. > I timed about every 12s a flash happens. > > NOTE: Cosmos likly flashes will be 99% of all its passes. > Regards, > Kevin Martin(NRB) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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