Ed: This is an excellent naked eye object - I believe that this is the first Centaur in many years to have both apogee and perigee in LEO; I would imagine that as time goes by, the very light Centaur will drop both apogee and perigee, making it a spectacular object. I believe that I noticed a slight copper color, but this may have been an artifact of my knowledge of the color of the insulation covering the upper stage. The 7 second "flare" was quite noticeable. DWA At 11:44 PM 3/16/2007, Ed Cannon wrote: >Caught a brief pre-shadow-entry pass of the Orbital Express >Centaur, and it looked like a Centaur. It had a period of >roughly seven seconds, with a secondary maximum, and the >primary maximum was bright. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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