Haven't been to bed yet due to watching Ursids... Last night Orion 3 (25727, 99-024A) did at least a couple of bright flashes quite a way before culmination. COMETS (25175, 98-011A) did a -2 flash as it approached near zenith; it's tumbling but I haven't gotten tumble period yet. Too tired now to check PPAS.... Intercosmos 19 (11285, 79-020A) flashed three or four times again. Still not sure it's tumbling. Molniya 3-43 (22255, 92-085A) has a flash period of about 4.4 seconds and with handheld 10x50 binoculars in the last few sessions has been visible very low in the south -- range about 8,000 km -- but rapidly gets too faint. (It was mentioned and its photo appeared in those articles about telescope tracking of Molniyas.) The very low pass of GPS 47 Delta (26606, 00-071B) was about +0.5 magnitude, steady, at range of about 280 km. 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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