Telstar 401 again
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Wed, 05 May 1999 04:39:20 -0500
Tuesday evening (about 2:54 on Wednesday, 5 May UTC) I happened
to see a very bright flash, and Mike McCants determined right
away that it was just about where Telstar 401 (22927, 93-77A)
was predicted to be. It was almost four minutes later when it
flashed again. I would estimate that the first few flashes were
possibly as bright as +1. The flash period has decreased to a
few seconds less than 4 minutes since we last observed it.
Later, about 4:05 UTC, we caught the maximum of Superbird A,
with several one-power flashes. We were not able to find the
DSP (98001) that was predicted to be less than 3 degrees from
Superbird.
The first one-power object of the evening was the DSP 19 Titan IV
(25670, 99-17B) with culmination low in the SSE; it was about +2
and seemed to be pretty steady.
SPOT 3 (22823, 93-61A) displayed a few one-power flashes.
This was the BCRC location: 30.314N, 97.866W, 280 m.
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA