Just observed USA 193 (06-057A) making a 50 degree pass in the southwest. It was bright again, about mag. +1.5 while crossing Gemini. The bonus however was that it briefly and conspicuously flared, a flare of about 1 second to mag. -1.5, with a distinct orange-yellow colour at 19:37:50 UTC. I don't think I have seen mention of flare behaviour for this sat before (but I could be wrong). Alas it did 10 seconds after my camera exposure ended. I do have a fine trail on photograph though. Positions from it will follow later. Now I do know that it gets so bright on west-southwest passes (in other sky directions it is invisible for me, in the sense of: too faint), I'll start to regularly cover it during such passes. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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