In a message dated 6/3/2001 14:46:18, edcannonsat@yahoo.com writes: >The other day Robert Fenske reported on Gorizont 16 (88-071A, 19397), 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 Last night whilst observing from Point Lobos, San Francisco at the SFAA city star party I also had a nice observation of Gorizont 16 through my 80mm scope. Having repaired my stopwatch since last weeks observations I managed to time a flash period of 94.59s (timed over End of obs=05:17UT, 3rd June 2001). The intial flashes seemed no brighter than mag +7 or +8, but by the end of the observation the flashes had brightened to perhaps magnitude +5. Again I also looked for Gorizont 23, but nothing was visible with my instrument. I noticed the geoflashers Superbird A & TDF-1 are well placed for observations from my site, does anyone have any idea of time of flash maxima for either of these satellites? Best wishes, Jason ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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