... you might like UME 1 (76-019A) 08709 and UME 2 (78-018B, 10675), which also have been known as Ionosphere Sounding Satellites ISS and ISS-b. They don't flash quite as fast as EGP, but they're fun, with flashes, including secondary maxima, separated by less than 2.5 seconds: 76- 19 A 02-01-07 00:41:12 EC 48.6 0.3 10 4.86 .5-per 2ndaries visible 78- 18 B 02-01-07 01:49:52 EC 38.8 0.2 11 3.53 .5-per 2ndaries visible Bart wrote an informative message about them almost exactly five years ago: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-1996/0028.html Iridium 920 (97-034C, 24871) is a fast flasher when it flashes on a pass. Last night it did at least ten one-power flashes very close to one per second. Iridium 42 (97-077A, 25077) did both a solar panel flare and an MMA flare pretty well as predicted. The panel flare wasn't the predicted -3, but it was bright. The MMA flare was quite long, more than a minute, and seemed to have actually three bright points, including one each before and after the predicted maximum. Or maybe it had a couple of dips to fainter magnitude. Two nice tumbling rockets that can be especially bright for low-inclination observers are FleetSatCom 1 Rk (78-016C, 12908) and FleetSatCom 4 Rk (80-087B, 12069): 78- 16 C 02-01-07 01:52:34 EC 141.1 0.4 11 12.83 80- 87 B 02-01-07 02:11:22 EC 176.5 0.4 15 11.77 Intelsat 503 Rk (13007) -- an asymmetrical flasher: 81-119 B 02-01-07 02:44:03.5 EC 120.7 0.5 8 15.1 asymmetrical 2ndaries 8.49, 6.61 8.49, 6.62 8.38, 6.84 8.29, 60.33 6.85 8.27 2:44:03.51 This was the first clear, moonless weekend evening at the BCRC location (30.315N, 97.866W, 280m) in weeks. 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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