Hi folks: 2005 Drawing to an end soon, I was plague with very bad weather anyway I tried my luck. Dec 20 - after seeing a nice meteor pass, i caught a unsuspecting late nite flashing satellite (again) by accident. What is interesting is soon after i did the skymap plot and check the timing and at least x3 positions matches MDS 1 Fairing 1 or 02003D, 28237 was never reported with double digit timing.... 25 sec seems far-stretched...than the 'typical' 8+ sec. The flash seen here was > +3. My LM was no better than +4.... so i was suspecting the video detection missed some.... but not missing that regular.. Then Ed Cannon came to my rescue.. he did have some data on 2003 showing a sequences of 24+ sec... ( close enought to 25 secs... hard disk file saving overheads perhaps..) Details posted in http://www.ykchia.com/wrapupdec.htm - after the meteor stuff... What is the reason reported timing which is x2 ( double) the fundamental timing.. and in this case x3 ( x3x8=24)... in general Thanks rgds ykchia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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