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 ..... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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