Last night Paul Gabriel, who's in Austin for a couple of days, went observing with Mike McCants and me -- very enjoyable to get to meet another fellow observer! Paul's binoculars -- well, there is something to say about mounted 10x70s! Wow! Intelsat 512 (16101) -- easy even under full moonlight and some thin cloud -- and still speeding up. 85- 87 A 01-08-02 05:02:25.5 EC 396.3 0.2 15 26.42 +4->inv I think it's very possibly brighter than +4 but just cannot be very sure with the moonlight. Had an unexpected bright flasher going down in the north -- it turned out to be IRS-P2 (23323, 94-068A). USA 102 (23031, 94-017B) continues to display easy one-power flashes as it goes north -- even down to about 15 degrees above the horizon. The previous night there was an unexpected +1 star above Polaris! It turned out to be Landsat 4 (13367, 82-072A) flaring, just like Don Gardner told us a long time ago. Oh, by the way, "We saw ISS!" The Wednesday PM pass was even mentioned ahead of time on at least one of the local TV news programs, and the weather was favorable, and it was a nice pass, although it didn't flare. BCRC location: 30.3157N, 97.8663W, 280m. Just in case someone missed it, here's a story about the stir caused in Central America and southern Mexico by the latest Shuttle reentry: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010726/sc/centam_space_shuttle_1.html I wish I had been able to see -- and hear -- it! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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