I was able to see much more of Telstar 401's flash episode earlier tonight, from about RA 23:50 to 00:15, roughly. The brightest maxima may have been zero magnitude. They were certainly brighter than Deneb and made beta Ceti (+2) look dim. Below are timings and rough magnitude estimates. The first three were very bright also. The last flash I saw was about six minutes earlier than the last one the previous night. 93-077A, 22927, Telstar 401, first click late 02 ------ 4:15:50.19 2005 November 10 UTC 03 92.35 4:17:22.54 04 94.49 4:18:57.03 05 94.83 4:20:31.86 +1.0 06 94.66 4:22:06.52 +1.0 07 94.57 4:23:41.09 +1.0 08 94.85 4:25:15.94 +3.5 09 94.44 4:26:50.38 +1.5 10 95.16 4:28:25.54 +3.0 11 94.11 4:29:59.65 +2.0 12 94.83 4:31:34.48 +6.0? 13 94.36 4:33:08.84 14 189.40 4:36:18.24 +5.5? 15 189.33 4:39:27.57 +5.5? Observed from the Ney Museum site: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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