Ed, Thanks for these PPAS reports. If I have time I try to find objects like Topex and operational NOAA's. They can flare in the way you described for Topex. I think there must be a specific Azimuth at which the flaring occurs. May be its about 180° from the Sun's azimuth (opposite to the Sun). I did the observing , not yet the azimuth determination. A similar thought was expressed before but I cannot remember when and by whom. Regards and happy observing. Bram Dorreman Collector PPAS observations ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, 2004 November 10 11:49 Subject: Summer Quadrilateral; PPAS reports > Saturday evening when I looked up to get oriented to look for > Topex (92-052A, 22076), what I saw was that the Summer Triangle > (Vega, Altair, Deneb) had become the "Summer Quadrilateral", > with the southeast corner the brightest of all, about -1. Then > I could see that the fourth one was northbound. It was Topex. > This was about 2:26:30 November 7 UTC. After some seconds it > dimmed. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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