ykchia wrote: > > Hi folks: > > Seeing the False Cross hanging rising out of my window, I was > tempted to do some star fields/meteor imaging and just minutes into > staring at the b/w monitor - a rapid white flashing satellite crawled > across the screen - it was like a FireFly...flashing multiple times per > seconds ( sorry did not time) and pretty regular cycles... The first time I came across EGP was quite by accident while looking for another satellite with 10*50 binoculars. Its behaviour is much as you describe, flashing on average 3/sec, but really quite irregularly. The flashes vary in magnitude and are about mag 4.5 to 5.0, and invisible between flashes > Then came the ID part > After a little tweaking ( narrowing > the prediction in minutes, cut-off at mag 4.5 did not capture it and > changed it back to 8 ..) and found the match - it was EGP! I had similar difficulties IDing it using SatHunt, but once I changed the Mag to 8-9, I found it and realised that it was a sat mentioned by Ed Cannon in the newsgroup. sci.astro.satellite.visual-observe. I now regularly watch EGP, as it can be seen very late in a session, being at approx 1500kms high. -- Larry Brash 32.9718° S, 151.6343° E, 30 metres, UTC +10 http://members.ozemail.com.au/~lbrash/satellites/obs.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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