Hello, In January I had a conversation with Ed Cannon about two bright, near-geosynch flashers that I had observed. My apologies for not sharing it with everyone here. >On Saturday, January 8 (18:45 PST), I set up the 10x50's on a tripod to look at Gorizont >23. In addition, I found two others nearby flashing, and nearly as bright. The first >was about 2 deg. E. of, and 1-2 deg. above Gorizont 23. I timed four flashes from this >one for a period of about 145 seconds. I spotted the other sat just 1-2 degrees E. of >and at the same approx. el. as Gorizont 23. I only saw a few flashes from this one, but >one period was roughly 63 seconds (give or take). Flashes from both were seen between >18:50 and 19:10 PST. Ed identified the most likely candidates as GSTAR 1 (15677, 1985-035A) and GSTAR 3 (19483, 1988-081A) with Highfly. I later found the same with Skymap. Monday evening (00-02-28) around 21:15 PST, I observed one bright flash where GSTAR 3 should have been, but no additional flashes were seen during the next 3 to 3 1/2 min. Around 21:45 (PST) I looked again, saw another, and no more in the same 3 to 3 1/2 min. Last night (00-03-01 local) I decided to patiently wait this one out. Using 10 x 50's I sat and waited for it to appear. About five minutes passed and there it was, a nice bright (close to mag. 4) flash. I clicked on each additional flash thereafter: elapsed: 07:13.0 04:48.0 02:25.0 04:48.3 02:24.8 02:24.1 04:49.0 04:48.4 04:48.4 02:24.9 04:48.4 04:48.6 ending time 22:01:15 UTC. It seems to have the same basic period that I observed in January. Not all of the expected flashes were visible (i.e. > mag 7.5). 88- 81 A 00-03-01 06:01:15 SDL 3321.6 9.9 23 144, vm, mag 4->inv. Best wishes. Steve LaLumondiere 33.8202, -118.3165 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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