Just met our old friend Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A ) again. I picked it up at an elevation of just 8 deg when it was passing next to Venus (the one thing I can easily find in a light polluted city sky!) at 20:03:50 UTC (26-MAR-07). I then followed it with my 3 inch scope. Lacrosse 5 started out very dim (due to the low elevation) but at 20:04:34 quickly jumped by at least 2 mag (within two seconds or so). It fell down by about 1 mag at 20:04:55 and then dropped (within a second or two) by another two mag (I guess) very quickly at 20:05:53. Here goes the disappearance trick again! It stayed dim for the next two minutes at least (after which I lost sight of Lacrosse 5 due to some wall getting in the way). The magnitude of the dim part was probably around mag 6 or so (my best estimate through my limited field of view and the light polluted city sky). Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany 49.8822 N, 8.6558 E ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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