Due my general incompetence in operating a stopwatch in the dark, I failed to get precise times for the ETS-6 phase change. Suffice it to say that the 1x flashes began around 03:43:10 UTC 11 January. The initial 1x flash was followed 2.8 seconds later by a secondary flash. Basically it was the same flash pattern reporter in my previous post: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Jan-2000/0089.html The flashes were approximately equal in brightness at ~03:45:10 UTC 11 Jan. Both the primary and secondary flashes quickly faded aver the next 2 minutes. For the folks in the Baltimore-Washington area there is a great Mir pass tomorrow. The Mir will ascend below the Moon at 18:22, pass between Jupiter and Saturn (165 az, 60el) at 18:25, pass through the Pleaides and enter eclipse at 18:25:42. As noted recently, the plot of the pass looks like that of a decayer. [In the vernacular: It will be bookin'] Cheers Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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