Using my 8x42, after most of the LEOs were over with, I thought I'd try to see Gorizont 13, especially since ASC 1 was fairly nearby. I saw a flash and then another, and I ended up watching the area for about an hour, as there were three objects flashing brightly in the area. (My 8x42 has FOV of at least 8 degrees.) This was a case when mounted binoculars would have been ideal. Then I could have used two stopwatches! I'm 99.9% certain that one of the three was indeed Gorizont 13 (86-090A, 17083), and it appears that the other two were ASC 1 (85-076C, 15994) and GStar 3 (88-081A, 19483). Here is a PPAS report for Gorizont 13, which seemed unusually bright for a Gorizont: 86- 90 A 04-05-17 05:04:06 EC 861.0 0.3 10 86.10 +4.0->inv What PPAs numbers mean: http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/ppasformat.txt I only saw a few flashes of the other two. They both have longer flash periods. The last flash that I saw from the one I think was GStar 3 was probably at least +2 magnitude. One as yet unidentified southbound LEO or MEO went through the FOV while I was watching these. Iridium 914 (24836): 97- 30 A 04-05-17 02:48:16 EC 93.5 0.1 8 11.68 For it, I got this probably coincidental sequence of six flashes: 11.62, 11.69, 11.74, 11.62, 11.69, 11.74 Orion 3 did a monster flash of about -5 or maybe even -6 magnitude at about 2004-05-17 03:10:32. Anyone seen Superbird A (89-041A, 20040)? The comet was faintly visible without binoculars. BCRC site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. 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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