Last night Mike McCants went looking for 90007 and found it some six minutes early based on the latest available elset (in mccants.tle). Before too long it began brightening and flashed brightly, up to about +4.0 at the brightest, for a period of about 20 minutes centered on about 3:30 Oct 4 UTC. Given continuing very nice conditions, I saw at least one of the flashes without magnification. Its flash episodes three or four months ago were about 12 minutes earlier each night. I saw Superbird A last night as predicted. Thanks Rob! Some other bright geosynchs seen again. It may be that the one I though was Brazilsat B3 really was GE 2 (24713, 97-002A). So last night I believe they were GE 2 followed by GE 3 (24936, 97-050A) ten minutes later, followed by Galaxy XI (26038, 99-071A) 18 minutes after that. Using Mike's telescope we saw a couple of faint ones also; I believe they were Galaxy 7 (22205, 92-072A) just in front of Galaxy 11 (or XI) and 25740, 99-027A behind it. 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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