Kevin asked: ] Does anyone know when Superbird A will flash again for my ] location? I watched it last night (Tuesday PM local) from about 4:14 to 4:18 May 31 UTC but probably missed the first couple of minutes at least. Seems to me the last two nights its flashes have been better than when it was high up in the south. Observing location was BCRC, Austin, Texas, 30.314N, 97.866W, 280m. According to Rob Matson's message the other day, on a given night, for California it flashes several minutes earlier than Austin. Also, its episodes are 60 to 90 seconds later each night. That would make it *very* roughly about 4:04 to 4:06 to begin looking from California on Wednesday evening (9:04-9:07 PDT). I'll venture to say that it's probably bright enough to see in binoculars towards the end of evening twilight without too much difficulty. For reference, here are Rob's messages about it this month: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2000/0033.html http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2000/0015.html http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2000/0059.html http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2000/0308.html http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2000/0352.html ***** That article about the solar maximum and atmospheric drag is very interesting! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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