Beautiful night over central Texas! One-power observing. I noticed in Mike's published mag. 5.5 predictions for Austin that NOAA 11 (19531, 88-89A) was going to be about where it was (northbound from the SE) last October when I (and Jake Rees a couple of nights later) saw it do a double flare. The prediction I had this time was at alt. 46, az. 134. (I found out it went near Alphard [alpha Hydrae] when I looked up the mag. +2 star it passed.) So I looked for it and was *not* disappointed. It displayed two maxima to at least -1 (with Sirius, for comparison, not too far away) that lasted a few seconds each. The maxima were separated by approx. 10 to 15 seconds, and between them it was faint-to-invisible. I recorded 2:14:27 and 2:14:42 UTC (19 March) for the flares, but I may have waited a couple of seconds later on the second one. After the second one, it remained faintly visible for perhaps 15-20 seconds. NOAA H) is currently (or was until quite recently) stabilized and at least partly operational, or on standby status: http://poes2.gsfc.nasa.gov/history/noaa-h.htm (w/ picture) http://www.nnic.noaa.gov/SOCC/polarsum.html http://www.ssc.se/ssd/dia972.html (See July 16.) so perhaps these events are predictable. The problem is, looking at that picture of NOAA 11, it's hard to see how it could do *double* flares.... TRMM/ETS7 Rk (25065, 97-74C) seems possibly to have slowed to a period of about 30 seconds. Very bright maxima. Cosmos 1867 (18187, 87-60A) looked like it would have been very interesting with magnification; it was flashing with what appeared to be multiple flashes (almost like sparkles?) at each maximum. Astex (05560, 71-89A) brightened to about +1.5 as it approached and reached culmination and then quickly dimmed to its predicted +3.n magnitude. There was a pretty nice Lacrosse 3 pass. I tried to some extent to see Superbird A flashes but really didn't know when to expect them. Ed Cannon ecannon@mail.utexas.edu Austin, Texas (UT campus) 30.286N, 97.729W, 150m