Re: COMETS flashes?

From: Tristan Cools (tcools@nic.INbe.net)
Date: Tue Mar 14 2000 - 13:50:20 PST

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At 05:06 12/03/00 -0600, you wrote:

>both watched there a while, and then I saw a bright 
>flash -- above and a bit east of the northern head of 
>Hydra!  We watched at least four or five minutes longer 
>and saw no more one-power flashes.  Checking this out
>later, the best candidate seems to be COMETS (25175,
>98-11A).  I failed to click when my "cousin-in-law"


I observed COMETS on 1999 September 26.  At the time I found the satellite
it was becoming as bright as magnitude +5 and that for about 3 minutes.
Later on, it faded untill it became invisible.

Greetings,


Tristan Cools
Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS)

Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1
Ryckevelde:  3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2
Brugge:      3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home)


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