Good Evening Folks, A few nights ago (9-16 UTC) I had an interesting sat ob. I saw what I figured to be Midas 9. I first noted this sat just to the east of the north star at 1:10 and followed it up to near zenith at 1:15 UTC. It was going through a cycle of maybe a minute duration. I did not time it other than mentally, so I do not have an accurate time, but after one flare it then gave a double flare about a quarter of a minute later. During 1998 I saw Midas 7. These are unusually high sats (over 2,000 miles) to see 1 power. Noting how old these sats are I do not think they are working, but are rather tumbling dead sats. Is it common to see the Midas sats or is it just a chance when you see one? Or maybe no one has went after these birds. I guess I am wondering if they can be seen as reliably as some of the tumbling Iridiums. Floyd Weaver Lebanon PA USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 22 2001 - 01:00:30 EDT