Hi Bram, Many thanks for sending your observations and analysis. This is very useful information. I was able to observe a more favorable pass of NOAA-13 last night under very clear sky through Hercules. Again I saw a regular flashing pattern but the interesting part was that the flash period seemed to shorten when it went more to the horizon. Because I stopped tracking at this point, I was able to count anything and it was around 1.0 second regular. Please note that I was imaging and tracking the object with the telescope, so I need the concentration and can't do real good measurements as the visual observers can do. Unfortunately, it was a very hard object to get centered; it was only visible in the tracking scope during its very short flashes, and those flashes were too short to get the object centered. However,I succeeded in capturing telescopic images of 2 interesting old weather satellites from the 60's; Meteor 1-1 and Cosmos 44. More of this, later.... Ralf Vandebergh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100716/a50e5448/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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