Thought I somehow missed Molniya 3-42 (22178) several nights ago, but it's still flashing brightly, though it's about two hours earlier in the evening now. Its flash period continues to accelerate, so I've included a couple of earlier timings for comparison: 92- 67 A 01-12-30 01:52:23 EC 463.1 0.3 20 23.16 +3.5->inv, 2ndaries 92- 67 A 01-12-29 01:57:24 EC 486.8 0.3 21 23.18 +3.5->inv, 2ndaries 92- 67 A 01-12-01 03:48:52 EC 482.3 0.3 20 24.11 +3.0->inv, 2ndaries 92- 67 A 01-11-25 04:14:09 EC 572.0 0.5 47 12.17 +3.0->inv It may have been +3.0 -- hard to tell with the moonlight and nearby Christmas lights, porchlights, etc. For most of the latest two episodes, as before, both full- and half-period maxima were visible (now every 11.58 seconds). With binoculars, I was able to watch it down to pretty low in the sky, flashing between bare tree limbs above my parents' house. Observing location was San Antonio, Texas -- 29.400N, 98.660W, 180m. Iridium 911 (97-030G, 24842) has been doing some bright flashes recently -- a couple before culmination, then a couple of minutes later, low in the south, a series of fainter ones that began with a strong negative magnitude flash. 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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