Wednesday evening (early Thursday UTC) Mike McCants and I watched what seems to match Telstar 401 (22927, 93-77A) for about an hour and 45 minutes. The first ten flashes that I recorded were possibly as bright as +2.0. They are slow, smooth flashes that perhaps last as long as a second (perhaps a bit more when observed in telescope). The eleventh flash was obviously fainter, and each one after that was even fainter until the last one Mike observed in his telescope, which he estimated to be about +9. That was the 26th flash, if I counted correctly. The flash period is about 246.7 seconds. Neither of us saw anything between the flashes. The rough time I wrote down for the first one that I saw was 1:56:50 UTC (7:56:50 PM CST). Observing location was the driveway of Mike's house, which I think is about 30.334N, 97.760W, 158m. The last two nights Iridium 79 has made unusual passes here. Tuesday night it was visible at one-power for much of the pass, varying irregularly, and after culmination it exhibited a few *very* bright flashes. It was similar Wednesday night except that the visible one-power variations looked almost like an ordinary tumbling rocket, but then after culmination it again displayed a few very bright flashes, although not as bright as Tuesday night. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA