Spacenet 2 (15385, 84-114A, a drifting former geosynch) flashes for a long time each evening, and from here during a very similar period of time from night to night. It's easy with 10x50 binoculars for at least 40 to 50 minutes per night (last night from 2:47 to 3:35 UTC), and it may last twice that long if it has a phase shift during the event. (That is, it may have started long before Mike McCants and I happened to start observing it on the nights when we have tried.) So this is to request observations of it from others. Elements for it are available in Mike's mccants.tle and geo.tle files, on this page: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/tles/ Its flash period is about 96.45 or 192.9, and every time in the last month one of the maxima has disappeared during the event. I'm not yet sure of the magnitude of the brightest flashes, but they are at least +5.5 and may be brighter. It was discovered by Steve LaLumondiere in May 2000. 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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sun Jan 05 2003 - 06:49:35 EST