Re: Superbird A

From: Tom Wagner (sciteach@mchsi.com)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 00:15:27 EST

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    I observed Superbird-A again tonight. I first picked it up at 9:42:15 PM CST
    (3:42:15 UTC). My son was manning the night scope and I my binoculars.
    Again, the flashes were pretty regular, very much in time and pretty much in
    brightness--only a few were a bit more dim than those before and after and
    those were mostly at the beginning and ending of the observation period.
    
    The flashes were about 11 seconds apart. Only one flash was what I would
    call "bright." Neither my teenage son nor I saw any w/o optical aid. I tried
    by having him call out whenever he would see a flash with the binocs. I also
    tried by seeing a flash through the tripod mounted binoculars myself then I
    would look w/o the optical aid and count to 11. Still, no luck.
    
    Superbird was predictably about 2 degrees west of where it was the night
    before, about half way between zeta and theta Ceti. [Thanks Björn.]
    
    I saw the last faint flash at about 9:50 PM CST (3:50 UTC).
    
    Also saw two more meteors zip through the FOV of my night vision scope! One
    was probably a Geminid. Both were faint.
    
    Clear skies,
    
    Tom
    Latitude: +42.473513
    Longitude -92.360413
    Meters above sea level: 274
    UTC -6
    .....
    
    
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