Starshine 2 15:56 UTC Dec.16

From: Bjorn Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2001 - 13:36:54 EST

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    55 minutes after scheduled release, I had some haze at a 20 deg. S pass of
    the shuttle, which is near my maximum culmination. I didn't notice the
    shuttle until 13 degrees left of Mars. Almost immediately I saw a negative
    magnitude flash about three degrees behind the shuttle, at about 15:56:19
    UTC. Looking in binoculars, a second flash, apparantly at about mag. -2 like
    the first one came at 15:56:47.2.
    I may have seen a third flash, more like +4, in binoculars at 15:57:13.2.
    
    This was from Malma - back in town I tried for rising Starshine 3, the last
    minute before shadow entry at 16 deg. NW, but saw nothing. Conditions will
    improve as shadow entry move S, but the Moon is returning.
    
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