nice flasher

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Hello,


I made an observation this evening of the Forte/Pegasus XL third
stage.(1997-47B/24921)

It seems to bee a nice flasher with 3 secundary maxima between the primary
maxima.  The primary maxima were relatively bright(mag +4) for a Pegasus rocket.

These are my timings of the primary maxima:

5.85
5.91
5.80
6.04
5.80
5.91
5.93
5.86
5.89
6.02

I have observed other Pegasus third stages and they are(were) probably all
flashing, but this one seems to be the most interesting one.

BTW: the post boost stage from the Start 1/Zeya launch(1997-10B/24745) is a
very bright object.  It is a naked eye object of mag +2.(when conditions are
good)

Greetings,

Tristan Cools
tcools@nic.INbe.net
BWGS Member - Belgian Working Group Satellites

Observing at: Damse Vaart: 3.2486E/51.2279N/Rijckevelde:
3.2867E/51.2054N/Brugge: 3.1611E/51.2108N		

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