A nice fine night here in northwest Sydney and a good 10 months of casual observing since my last post. Saw Tiangong 1 (37820) for the first time and enjoyed picking it out easily. Fast moving and good to see a new object. Anyhow I wanted to switch from naked-eye viewing to binoculars first, but recently picked up a very cheap 4" Meade reflector. So after capturing a very quick pass of SeaSat 1 (10967) for an alignment test, I focused on a reasonably bright star (Rigel Kentaurus, HR 5459) and whilst adjusting the focus, noticed a flasher whiz past the narrow field of view. This was close to 09:31:40 UTC. This seemed to match Ajisai (16908) (using elset 11289.89404170). I think that EGP was one of your favourites, Derek? Anyhow I shook my head thinking "what are the chances of something like that whizzing past whilst adjusting the focus!" Heavensat calculated at 2692km distance. I looked up more object and flash details on the SeeSat archive as well. Hats off to the regular posters, especially those with the constant accurate obs. I think that I need to spend more time playing with ObsReduce and do a lot more reading. Regards, Mal Ninnes Sydney, Australia -33.733 150.938 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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