I decided to try and see if I could see Superbird A, not knowing when it was going to start flashing, I went outside just before 3:00 UT and set up my binoculars in the area it should have been. At 3:07 UTC i noticed a flash, then after a few seconds another. I watched it for over 6 minutes. Success On my first try. I saw two naked eye flashes, but was hard to see becuse of the lights in the area. Got to get to darker skies. What other geo sat's flash , maybe reaching naked eye or at least in a pair of 10*50 binoculars. I was looking through the PPAS database, but wanted to hear from experience geo sat flashes observers. Thanks Kevin 44.6062 -75.6910 From: Mir16609@aol.com To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com CC: ppas@blackadder.lmsal.com Subject: Superbird A Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 23:42:33 EDT In PPAS format: 89-041 A 01-04-20 03:13:02.68JDG 422.4 0.3 37 11.42 +2.0->inv When I acquired Superbird A the 11 second flash cycle was already in progress. The phase shift seemed to occur at 03:09 UTC 20 April. Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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