Congratulations to Ted and Jim P. and whomever else may have seen Raduga 33 glowing and trailing plasma! Excellent! The rest of us will keep hoping for a similar opportunity! Flashing unid. I don't have enough free hard-disk space to download and unzip the alldat.tle file. Using mccants.tle and eccen.tle I don't get a good match. I was trying to see COMETS but saw something else. It was moving very slowly (maybe .5 degree in a minute, or maybe .25 degree while the stars moved .25 degree to the west?). It did double-flashes every 2.84 seconds, about +5.5 magnitude. Unfortunately it disappeared after only a minute or so. The direction of travel was, I think, about 270 to 290. The following position is somewhat rough (of course); time is UTC: 2004-05-06 02:11:10 RA 11:03 Dec -13.7 (2000) I had a very good accidental obs of NOAA 13 (93-050A, 22739), for which I had no prediction, while I was looking for a couple of flashing geosynchs in the SW. I had three nearly simultaneous crossers in the 8x42. I was watching Cosmos 1300 Rk (81-082B, 12786) northbound when a southbound object, Topex (92-052A, 22076) went by, and then immediately an eastbound one, 90019, appeared. This is one advantage of an 8-degree FOV. I was able to see Comet 2001 Q4 (NEAT) from 2:20 to 3:00 UTC, a fairly big blob left of Sirius -- not hard using the 8x42. My site was E. Ney Museum grounds: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. I forgot to mention that Tuesday evening we saw very bright flashes from Orion 3 (99-024A, 25727), as bright as -1. PPAS report: 99- 24 A 04-05-05 02:41:04 EC 99.4 0.2 6 16.57 -1>inv asymm I added "asymmetrical" because of the following timings, which may include a phase shift as well: 16.58, 16.52, 16.57, 16.70, 5.35, 11.28, 5.17, 11.45, 5.05, 16.56, 16.69, 16.51, 16.74 Here's Cosmos 2400 Rk (27870) from earlier this week: 03- 37 C 04-05-03 02:25:30 EC 76.1 0.3 12 6.34 Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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