Ron Lee wrote: <Snipola> > Did anyone else in the US see them? > > Ron Lee <Snipola> I searched for quite some time for ETS-6 and finally found it through binoculars as it was leaving Orion. I then followed it for about 15 minutes through my 6" newt at 19x. I wanted to make my first attempt at timing the flashes but the pattern was so complex I could tell which flash was which. There was one bright flash about every 11 seconds interspersed with various numbers and degrees of smaller flashes and flares, but no more than about 4 or so. I was so excited to have found the thing at all so I didn't make any notes. While searching with the scope I had serendipitously found a bright tumbler which I continued to track for a minute or two. I later ID'ed it as Titan 4B Centaur R/B using information from Heavens-Above. It is definatly tumbling as it's brightness varied smoothly, seemingly randomly, and fairly quickly. -- S*k*y*w*i*s*e http://home.earthlink.net/~skywise711/ Laser & Optics links galore!!! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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