I was picking off at random, retired geo sat's last night to look at, to see who they were behaving. First was HELLAS SAT 1 ( 22175 ). Slow rotation, so it produces what I call flares.Not sure about, the time between the flares are for this one. I call them flares, as there's a change in brigtness. There's no quick flash of light, so to me not a flash. I had added to my database of slow rotating geo sat's, for checking on later. So I have in that database I so far have 22175 = Hellas Sat 1 18384 = Cosmos 1888 27775 = Cosmos 2397 21813 = Telecom 2A 24768 = Thaicom 3 21939 = Telecom 2B Next was GSTAR 2 ( 16649 ) nothing spotted for the time I observed it, so I went to my next one. That was EUTELSAT 1-F5 ( 19331 ) Now that one was really awesome. I checkd the PPAS database on it, after looking at it, instead of my usual method of looking at the PPAS data, before going to look at a certain random geo sat, to see if anyone's observed it. What I observed of it It gave a flash, double flash, flash, in a series, with a fainter flash in between the next set of flash, double flash, flash for the time I observed it. http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/flashing-geosat/19331.wmv 88- 63 B 06-01-23 04:05:54 KF 67 8->inv Last one of the night, was Cosmos 1888 ( 18384 ) Another slow rotating geo sat. It gave a flare to mag 10 are brighter, lasting a few seconds, every approx 9 minutes give are take. Kevin Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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