Last night (early Oct. 30 UTC) after watching Superbird A flashes, I thought I'd check on Gorizont 23 (91-046A, 21533) in the moonlight. After only a couple of its flashes, there was an off-time flash in another part of my binoculars field of view -- a degree or two to the west of Gorizont 23. I kept watching G 23 and was able to see a few other flashes of the other one, which appears to have been ASC 1 (85-076C, 15994). Its brightest flashes were brighter than those of Gorizont 23. Its flash period -- well, the shortest duration that I got -- was about 155 seconds. (I got multiples of 2, 3, and 5 times that 155 seconds.) I'd like to confirm it on one of these nights, but it's a long wait between flashes. Much later (about 7:20-30 UTC) I went back and found Gorizont 23 again, although I could not see all of its flashes. I found no sign of ASC 1 at this later time. Observing site: E. Ney Musuem grounds -- 30.307N, 97.727N, 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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