Richard Crisp wrote: > ... caught what I believe was a flasher transiting M1, The Crab > Nebula. Neat photo! I see on Richard's Web page that Ed Light has already ID'ed it as Raduga 33 (23794, 96-010A). Using Oakland, CA, I got the same one, but mainly I wanted to add that Raduga 33 is definitely tumbling and is known to flash very brightly on occasion, sometimes at quite a distance. For future reference, I'll venture to suggest that in order to get really precise identifications, a fairly specific observing location should be provided -- at least a specific city (unless it's "Los Angeles, Calif.", which is too big!), if not actual coordinates. By the way Richard, what were the specifics of the photo of IC 1795? Side-by-side tracks are suspicious -- see the multiple-thread, multiple subject discussions in September and October 1999 of a Sky & Telescope photograph with parallel tracks through M42, the Orion Nebula, beginning with Jay Respler's post, "SAT TRACK PHOTO": http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-1999/0251.html The discussion continued into October, e.g., with Rob Matson's post, "Mystery tracks through M42": http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Oct-1999/0067.html 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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