Yeesssss!!! First, let me apologize, I am a casual observer and do not have specific timings and the like. With that said, I just saw a f-a-s-t pass of Raduga 33 thanks to Ted's most recent elset's. 1 23794U 96010A 04126.98184383 .13616044 84073-5 20800-3 0 5203 2 23794 47.7696 116.4204 0829170 101.2074 268.2913 14.63925149 72303 It was running (again I apologize) roughly 1 minute early, but generally along the predicted path. My wife and I followed it across the entire sky and was it ever humming. At first I thought it was an airplane because of the flashing, but it was flashing WHITE. Absolutely no red flashes at all. I used 8 x 40's also but it was moving so fast I quickly put them down just to stand there watching naked eye in awe. I've never seen anything move that fast except low flying aircraft (like 500' AGL). I would estimate it's magnitude around 1.0 with slow flashes every 3-4 seconds around 0 magnitude. I am at 42.072N, 80.143W and the pass was plotted in Chris Marriott's Skymap Pro from 01:23 UTC to 01:31 UTC although it entered shadow around 01:29 Hope some of this is useful, I was just too excited not to write! Clear skies, Bill PS. I will try again for the 03:07 UTC pass although it's only going to be 11 degrees altitude in the North. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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