Last night (June 30 UTC) USA 129 (24680, 96-72A) did three very bright flashes, first at about 3:30:45-50 (rough time due to very late stopwatch click), followed by another at about 3:31:20 and third at about 3:31:30. The brightest was about +0, if I remember correctly. Cosmos 1732 (16593, 86-15A) appeared at least four magnitudes brighter than the predicted +6.6 at a range of about 1680 km. It stayed much brighter than predictions for much of the pass. It was apparently pretty well lined up with the Sun and the observer! Mike McCants acquired Centaur 97-68B (25035) at a range of more than 33,000 km, flashing about +9.0 to +9.5 with period a little more than once per second. Hubble Telescope has been doing very nice passes for several nights, with one or two negative magnitude maxima on each pass. Observing location: 30.314N, 97.866W, 280m. 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://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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