Geos 3 Rk (75-027B, 07735) was was unexpectedly tumbling with a flash period of about 10.8 seconds; some secondary maxima were visible. The last PPAS report of it tumbling that I've found was in May 1980. The maxima were long enough to be tricky for me to judge, so for my PPAS report, I estimated a 2-second error factor: 75- 27 B 02-03-24 03:01:06 EC 151.5 2.0 14 10.8 +4.0->inv Gorizont 23 (91-046A, 21533) was easy with 10x50 binoculars in spite of the gibbous Moon. 91- 46 A 02-03-24 04:00:26.3 EC 1512.7 0.2 28 54.02 +5.0->inv Mike McCants found six geosynchs, still apparently flaring even though it's very late in the season for our latitude. They were a pair, Galaxy 11 and Nimiq 1, and a foursome, whose IDs I'm not sure of, at about longitude 101 west. (For these four, neither Mike nor I had predictions; Mike found them based on our recollections of their azimuth.) OT re: comet. I'm not sure about other latitudes, but from here Comet 2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang-Raymundo) still was easy with 10x50 binoculars even in twilight, and I could see it very faintly even without them. By the way, Paulo Raymundo of Salvador, Brazil, who posted a message here a few days ago, is the third independent co-discoverer of this comet on the same night as Ikeya and Zhang, even though it was several hours later due to Brazil being half of a world away from Japan and China. BCRC observing site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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