Okean-O Zenit and Okean-O: worth the wait!
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 02:25:35 -0500
Okean-O Zenit is a very bright (one-power) fast flasher with a
period of about 0.5 second! I first tried clicking with each
flash. That was 20 clicks. Then I tried to count 30 cycles to
the next click. So that gave me the second timing totaling 50
cycles. Then I started again and tried to count 70 cycles
between two clicks. I estimated .3 error due to it not being
easy to be certain that I was counting correctly with it
tumbling that rapidly. These were all done using one-power!
99- 39 B 99-07-20 03:21:27 EC 10.0 0.3 20 0.50 mag +1.5->inv (1x)
99- 39 B 99-07-20 03:21:43 EC 25.7 0.3 50 0.51 mag +1.5->inv (1x)
99- 39 B 99-07-20 03:22:55 EC 36.7 0.3 70 0.52 mag +1.5->inv (1x)
Okean-O (25860, 99-39A) and Okean-O Zenit (25861, 99-39B) were
worth waiting out more than 30-40 minutes of clouds! Okean-O
was easily visible at one-power, at least +2.5, maybe +2.0.
Is it in its permanent orbit?
Location was 30.3068N, 97.7267W, 150m. Copy sent to PPAS.
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA