LES 8 without binoculars, plus UFO 8 Centaur (98-16B)

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 13 2005 - 10:59:20 EDT

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    Last night Mike got LES 8 with his telescope, so I didn't 
    have to try to watch with handheld binoculars for two-minute 
    stretches trying to catch a flash.  At a certain point, he 
    noted that it was brightening.  The brightest one(s) seemed 
    to be at least +1.5 magnitude.  Here's a PPAS report on the 
    brightest flashes seen from BCRC last night (about 3:16 to 
    3:26 -- about two hours earlier than only five nights ago!):
    
    08746, LES 8  
    76- 23 A 05-09-13 03:32:19   EC  989.4 0.2   8 123.68 +1.5->i
    
    timings: 
    ------  3:15:49.40  +3.5
    123.83  3:17:53.23  +2.0
    123.93  3:19:57.16  +2.5
    123.65  3:22:00.81  +2.0 MM  ("MM" are Mike's mag. estimates.)
    123.40  3:24:04.21  +1.5
    123.52  3:26:07.73  +3.0
                        +2.0 MM  (I missed this one.)
    247.36  3:30:15.09  +4.5      
    123.76  3:32:18.85  +3.5
    123.77  3:34:22.62  +3.5
    247.70  3:38:30.32  +4.0
    
    Early on Mike saw both primary and secondary with the telescope,
    and over time the primary grew fainter and the secondary 
    brighter, and if memory serves the ones above were the secondary.
    
    Here's another one from last night, with very few entries in 
    the database:
    
    25259, UFO 8 Centaur Rk
    98- 16 B 05-09-13 02:30:06   EC  131.5 0.3  22  5.98  +3.5->i
    
    PPAS format: http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat
    
    Throughout the session I scanned the Clarke Belt declination for 
    flaring geosats but didn't see any -- but two weeks from now they
    ought to be there (weather permitting).
    
    BCRC:  30.315N, 97.866W, 280m.
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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