After almost two weeks of mostly unfavorable weather, it was a very nice evening. (I was able to see a pretty ISS pass Monday evening, but then it clouded up before I finished walking home from the office. I bet those two guys are really looking forward to the upcoming Soyuz mission!) Fleetsatcom 1 Rk (12908), no binoculars, PPAS (flash period decreasing): 78- 16 C 03-10-15 01:14:54 EC 129.3 0.3 12 10.78 +3.0->inv NOAA 6 (11416) PPAS (mostly broad maxima): 79- 57 A 03-10-15 01:58:28 EC 83.1 2.0 8 10.4 +4.0->inv I looked for APEX (94-046A, 23191) and saw an erratically tumbling object that otherwise seemed to match the prediction. Here are the timings; mostly tumbles, but there were some sharp flashes: First 1:28:55.99 -- 3.45, .91, 1.76 (trying to get the real maximum), 13.66, 4.99, 5.00, 8.73, 6.65, 14.97, 2.14, 4.39, 6.44, 10.12, 4.14, 28.86, 4.23, 17.55 -- 1:31:12.98 Last I was able to see two flaring geosats in the 21:00-22:00 RA zone, but I did not see any at the regular shadow-entry area. Site was E. Ney Museum grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. I've seen a little coverage of Shenzhou V on TV. Just got this from OIG: UNK 1 28043U 03040 03288.33853078 -.00000479 00000-0 00000+0 0 16 2 28043 42.4192 28.3448 0001286 250.9576 109.1145 15.78268584 51 Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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