90007/00-653A obs, plus a few others

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 27 2000 - 01:48:25 PDT

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    Last night was even better than Wednesday night!
    
    I was able to find 90007/00-653A and observe three flash
    cycles between 1:20:12 and 1:22:54.  I'm not sure if I just
    lost it after that or if it faded out.  Anyway, if I saw the
    peak flashes, that's about 128 minutes earlier than the peak 
    time on October 4 and works out to about 5.5 or 5.6 minutes 
    earlier per night.  The brightest flashes were at least +4.5. 
    
    05       0   1:20:12.16
    06   27.73   1:20:39.89
    07   26.05   1:21:05.94
    08   27.83   1:21:33.77
    09   26.11   1:21:59.88
    10   27.91   1:22:27.79
    11   26.00   1:22:53.79
    
    Cosmos 2344 (24827, 97-28A) flared to a solid -2 for three 
    or four seconds after being visible at one-power, about +3, 
    for a couple of minutes.  Its range was more than 3,200 km 
    and increasing during the pass.  Its RCS is large.  When I 
    saw it flare before (a year or more ago?), it was a similar 
    northbound evening pass west of the meridian.
    
    FleetSatCom 4 Rk (12069, 80-087B) did a very nice one-power 
    pass (+2.5 maxima), at a range of at least 1,400 km.  Its 
    flash period is now about 10.5 seconds.
    
    It remained clear late enough to see Superbird A!  I timed 
    flashes from 3:34:03 until 3:40:20 and saw three one-power 
    flashes at about 3:37, the brightest possibly about +3.
    
    00-653 A 00-10-27 01:22:54   EC  161.6 0.3   3 53.9   mag +4.5->inv
    80- 87 B 00-10-27 01:49:16   EC  116.5 0.3  11 10.59  mag +2.5->inv
    89- 41 A 00-10-27 03:40:20   EC  343.1 0.3  15 22.88  mag +3.0->inv
    
    Asiasat 1 Rk (20559, 90-030B) made a one-power pass, about 
    +3, at a range of about 1,900 km.  Seemed pretty steady.
    
    I saw three one-power Raduga 33 (23794, 96-010A) flashes, the 
    first two being the brightest, maybe +1, the third about +3:
    
    01       0   1:09:18.60
    02   17.78   1:09:36.38
    03   17.96   1:09:54.34
    
    Obs. location:  E. Ney Museum grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m.
    
    Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    
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