The other day Robert Fenske reported on Gorizont 16 (88-071A, 19397), as I have also recently: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2001/0279.html http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/May-2001/0195.html Last night in spite of rapidly moving and worsening low clouds (not to mention the moonlight!), I was able to see two of its flashes at about 6:16:31 and 6:19:40, which means that it may be visible over a lot of the Americas from Atlantic to Pacific. It appears to flash for hours each evening to at least as bright as +4.5 (although it does seem to me that occasionally one of the flashes is fainter), and it may get up to +3.5. This object is easy (at least on this visit over the USA) with handheld 10x50 binoculars even in bright moonlight; it might be one-power from a good site on a moonless night. So I hope that others are getting to see it. It would be interesting, to me at least, to know how widely visible it is at any given time. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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