Last night I watched Telstar 401 (93-077A, 22927) from about 3:04:30 to about 3:30:31. At least one flash was brighter than Rigel. But I only saw six without binoculars. PPAS: 93- 77 A 02-01-15 03:30:31.0 EC 1561.2 0.3 13 120.09 -0.5->inv Thanks to Robert Fenske for his report, which encouraged me to try for ASC 1 (85-076C, 15994) after a long time -- and I found it! (I think I found it; the flash timings seem surprisingly different from some weeks ago.) I watched it from about 4:09:10 to 5:44:24. Several of the flashes were +4 I think, but one seemed at least a magnitude brighter. Due to phase shifts or something, the PPAS report only covers a few of the periods: 85- 76 C 02-01-15 04:56:50.9 EC 1522.5 0.4 5 304.5 +3.0->inv I looked for Iridium 44 again but did not see it at all. I was able to see Iridium 86 "?" flare pretty brightly only 10 degrees above the western horizon, but it was about 30 seconds late. Later Iridium 52 flared brightly as predicted -- only six degrees above the western horizon. Our weather may turn unfavorable here for a few days. 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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