Very sorry to hear about Bruno Tilgner! I saw a bright southbound object in the southeast. The sky was not very clear, but this object was easy to see without binoculars, at least +2 magnitude. It crossed over nu Serpentis Cauda at about 3:05:30.8 (June 26 UTC) and went a degree or so below and left of eta Ophiuchi about 20.25 seconds later. Observing site was 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Findsat gave 06306, 72-097B, Nimbus 5 Rk (a Delta 1, according to Sat. Sit. Report; RCS about 6.4) as a near-perfect match, but the Quicksat predicted magnitude was about +6.5. The range was 2100 to 2200 km. Seems anomalously bright, almost like OAO Centaurs sometimes do. When NOAA M/17 (27453, 02-032A) exited shadow Monday evening (June 25 UTC), it was flaring to about +2 magnitude. I somehow managed to have two culmination predictions 47 seconds apart, both with zero days elset age indicated by Quicksat. I clicked my stopwatch at about 4:02:57 and noted "flare in Hercules". FWIW, a "NOAA KLM USER'S GUIDE" is at: http://www2.ncdc.noaa.gov/docs/klm/ NOSS 2-2 passes continue to be bright. Superbird A is getting pretty far west, flashing very near 4:00 UTC here now. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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