Re: DFH 3

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Kurt Jonckheere wrote:
> At the beginning of the observation, I saw some other flashes of
> about mag +7, a little bit more South of Gorizont 23.  They were
> visible for about 4 minutes becoming too faint afterwards.  This
> object was flashing with a period of about 39 seconds.
> At 19h25m UT it was at about RA 4h40m, Dec : -8 ø
> Possible candidates found in Mike's geo.tle are :
> - 23415 = 94- 80 A = DFH-3, seen flashing by Rainer Kracht on 95-3-25
>           with a peirod of 120 seconds, mag +10 at maximum
> Has anyone seen 23415 recently ?

I looked for it 9/21/96 and 7/15/97 with no success. That means
it would have been fainter than mag 13.

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