Due to high, thin clouds, last night I observed TDF 1 (88-098A, 19621) with binoculars. Here's a reminder of what Mike McCants reported about ten days ago: 88- 98 A 00-02-06 01:26 MM 528.0 0.3 16 33.00 88- 98 A 00-02-09 01:59:36.9 MM 457.9 0.2 14 32.71 Last night I got 31.83 seconds: 88- 98 A 00-02-19 04:02:47.6 EC 700.3 0.3 22 31.83 No doubt some flashes would have been been one-power in a clear sky. The first one I saw was at about 3:49:15.75, but I started the above at about 3:51:07.30 due to an extra half-period among my clicks. There may have been a small "phase shift", as one of the later times (#34) seems anomalous -- about 0.3 second "early" relative to all of the others: # "Lap" Elapsed from zero, which was 00:20:00.06 ... 28 3:35:21.94 29 15.97 3:35:37.91 30 15.95 3:35:53.86 31 15.94 3:36:09.80 32 15.95 3:36:25.75 33 31.85 3:36:57.60 34 31.50 3:37:29.10 <-- about 0.33 second early 35 31.81 3:38:00.91 36 31.89 3:38:32.80 37 31.86 3:39:04.66 38 31.85 3:39:36.51 39 31.85 3:40:08.36 40 31.84 3:40:40.20 41 31.84 3:41:12.04 42 31.90 3:41:43.94 43 31.90 3:42:15.84 44 31.82 3:42:47.66 4:02:47.66 (-0.06) Saw a few ETS 6 flashes beginning at about 1:17 UTC, apparently what would have been the second set. This pass is getting early here now. Got to see STS-99 in Mike's telescope as he tracked it using the 12x80 finder scope. It was in quite a hurry! 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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