No joy on 90058 from Austin either. Mike has really been searching for it the last three evenings, and I have been trying to help. We did see the Long March (10-36B, 36829), thanks to Mike's enhanced predictions. They are releasing some elements now with more realistic drag, but it's just a difficult object for them to track well. It was flashing rapidly, but I didn't try to get a flash period. It's inclined such that people at higher latitudes can observe it -- if you can get usable predictions. It has very high drag and can't last very long. I wasn't able to see it without binoculars, but it was close to bright enough. I also saw AEHF 1 (10-39A, 36868) probably as bright as +3.0, although it was not easy to estimate with the Moon so near. It seemed to have a shorter flaring time than six nights ago, and it disappeared very quickly. We didn't get to see the flaring pair due to the rush-hour traffic on the way to the observing site. I saw USA 102 (94-17B, 23031) running about 10-11 seconds early on my Quicksat predictions. It's a neat one to see if you get a chance to see it, as it's fast and can flash very brightly. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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