At 11:54 10-6-04 -0400, you wrote: >The newly launched Zenit-2 upper stage rocket is likely to be a bright, fast >flasher: > >Cosmos 2408 r 10.4 3.9 0.0 3.9 v >1 28353U 04021B 04162.33857259 .00571196 00000-0 28640 0 0 59 >2 28353 71.0036 326.5130 0005055 192.3130 167.7816 14.13957846 42 Glad you mention this Ted ! Of course this will be a BWGS top-priority object. Many of this Zenit second stages began their flash period life time with a period of about 0.4s. I hope this will be a fast flasher as well. The program of the BWGS flashperiod measurements is still alive and can be found here: http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/program.rob Bram Dorreman and myself are investigating how we could improve the updates of the PPAS database. I have to admit it hasn't been updated a lot recently but we still collect all flash observations. Maybe the BWGS should release a new PPAS version in the near future. Greetings, Tristan Cools BWGS Belgian Working Group Satellites bwgs_belgianworkinggroupsatellites@hotmail.com http://users.skynet.be/satimage/index.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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