BY Obs Okie-Tex Sep 29

From: Brad Young (brad.young@domain-engineering.com)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 17:13:31 UTC

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    Items seen at Okie-Tex Star Party. Amazing skies, I spent most of my time on
    DSO, but "snuck" a few satellites in too. No classified objects this night
    that were not seen "accidentally", so no true positions, but I did happen on
    USA 170 again and USA 148, which was 0.1 deg south of AMC-10! Eutelsat II
    first seen flashing this night naked eye, seen the rest of trip, earlier
    each night. It seems to have speeded up from last PPAS report I find, which
    was:
    
    90- 79 B 04-12-12 04:08      MM                27.256
    
    PPAS:
    08- 47 B 08-09-29 02:11:50   BY   43.2 0.5   7  6.2   A; 3->inv 1X
    90- 79 B 08-09-29 05:20:02   BY  503.6 0.5  45 11.19  F; 5->inv
    
    Flaring geosats (format described at
    http://satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2007/0244.html) except, I like Mike's idea of
    including common name, so I added them:
    
    27875 8338 20080929 0241 W T 000 7  B P USA 170
    32768 8338 20080929 0352 W T 000 8  B P STAR ONE C2
    32388 8338 20080929 0415 W T 000 10 B P HORIZONS 2
    29236 8338 20080929 0548 W T 000 9  B U GALAXY 16   Group of 3
    28903 8338 20080929 0549 W T 000 9  B U SPACEWAY 2  Group of 3
    32729 8338 20080929 0550 W T 000 9  B U DIRECTV 11  Group of 3
    27501 8338 20080929 0630 W T 000 11 B U ECHOSTAR 8  Group of 3
    33207 8338 20080929 0631 W T 000 11 B U ECHOSTAR 11 Group of 3
    27426 8338 20080929 0631 W T 000 11 B U DIRECTV 5   Group of 3
    27854 8338 20080929 0716 W T 000 11 B U TELSTAR 13
    32951 8338 20080929 0728 W T 000 11 B U GALAXY 18
    27954 8338 20080929 0743 W T 000 11 B U GALAXY 13 / HORIZONS-1
    25086 8338 20080929 0754 W T 000 11 B U GALAXY 8
    28252 8338 20080929 0759 W T 000 11 B U AMC-11
    25585 8338 20080929 0803 W T 000 11 B U PAS 6B
    28884 8338 20080929 0810 W T 000 11 B U GALAXY 15 Shadow Entry
    28154 8338 20080929 0815 W T 000 10 B P AMC-10
    26052 8338 20080929 0815 W T 000 11 B U USA 148 Nice Surprise!
    
    Brad Young
    COSPAR 8338 Kenton, OK
    36.8978°N, 102.9522°W
    
    
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