Last night it was mostly clear for a while. After a brief look at Lacrosse 2, low in the east I saw a northbound, rapidly and brightly flashing object that I thought was probably an airplane. But I had predictions for some flashing Iridiums and so went ahead and started clicking on the flashes. When I checked, they were more like 1.2 to 1.25 second, which is not very likely for an airplane. So I'm pretty sure it was Iridium 911 (97-030G, 24842). It was already flashing when I first noticed it, and it was still carrying on when it went behind an athletic stadium. Magnitude was in the Sirius-to-Jupiter range, roughly -2, plus or minus. Due to some building interference causing a gap, and the whole sequence not coming out even (phase shift?), here are two separate timings from the same pass: 97- 30 G 01-03-30 01:29:31 EC 17.9 0.5 15 1.20 mag -2->inv 97- 30 G 01-03-30 01:30:19.5 EC 25.3 0.5 21 1.20 mag -2->inv Location: Univ. of Texas at Austin campus, 30.286N, 97.739W, 150m. 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/seesat/seesatindex.html
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