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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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