'Tis the season for one-power passes of NOSS triangles. NOSS 2-2 (91-76C, D, and E; 21799, 21808, 21809) was/were visible without binoculars (brightest about +3.5) for a minute or so, southbound, about 40-50 degrees up moving from the west to southwest. Superbird A (89-041A, 20040). I goofed on reading my predictions (wrong hour) at first and got there late again. It was visible without binoculars from 2:59:27 to 3:04:41, although the last two or three were quite faint, visible only due to no moonlight and pretty good weather. Jari reported very rapid flashing from Iridium 920. I've seen it do that before. Last night it didn't do that here that I saw, but here's a PPAS report on two sets of ten of its very regular tumbles (not specular, of which there are at least five surfaces), each set exactly 13.00 seconds: 97- 34 C 04-06-07 02:42:34.5 EC 26.0 0.1 20 1.30 Here's PPAS for CBERS 1 Rk (25942): 99- 57 C 04-06-07 02:35:27.0 EC 38.1 0.5 10 3.81 PPAS format: http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/ppasformat.txt I saw five or six unids. BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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