Last night outside the building where I work, in the middle of the city on a too-well-lit campus, with no binoculars I saw Telstar 401 (93-077A, 22927) from 1:35:19 to 1:48:26 (Dec 5 UTC; 7:35:19 to 7:48:26 Dec 4 CST) -- eight flashes, the last two not particularly bright. The first one wasn't as bright as Mars but wasn't a lot fainter either. Recently it's been about 11 to 15 minutes earlier each night. The previous night, with binoculars at beginning and end, I watched it from 1:40:49 to 2:16:27. Tonight it will be roughly about 10 degrees below Mars, more or less, sometime after 1:15-20 UTC (7:15-20 CST). I hope someone far from here gets to see it before it goes into twilight in just a few nights; it would add some good points to our data about it. The previous evening (Dec 4 UTC) at BCRC I also saw two neat double-flash ones. The first was 74-044A (07337, Cosmos 660). The double-flash maxima were widely and irregularly spaced, but when it flashed, it flashed twice. The other was unexpected as I was looking for Tele-X. The maxima about every 5.55 seconds on average were doubles, but part of the time one pair was a lot brighter than the other. Findsat said it was 77-041B (10025, Intelsat 4-4 Rk). That night Orion 3 (99-024A, 25727) did a couple of -3 flashes. I watched Superbird A (89-071A, 20040) flash from about 3:14:41 to 3:21:32 UTC. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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