A different USA 160 "Wow!", plus "I saw ...".

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 19 2003 - 06:03:19 EDT

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    USA 160 A and C went from west to south.  For the entire 
pass the trailer, A (26905, 01-040A), was two or three 
magnitudes brighter than C (26907, 01-040C), and part of 
time I could not see A at all.  However, twice during 
the pass A flashed very brightly (maybe +1?), much 
brighter than C, which was about +4 at the brightest!  
The times of those flashes were about 1:33:43.0 and 
1:37:25.5.

Not much scientific value below, but with my trusty 
10x50s I also saw:

DMSP 16 (28054, 03-034A).

Ofek 5 (02-025A, 27434).  (I like watching one go the 
"wrong" direction!)

The DSP in the SW (89-046A, 20066, USA 39).

Raduga 33 (96-010A, 23794).

And I managed to see Milstar 6 (03-012A, 27711).  (It's 
not easy, Kevin!)

Thanks to search predictions from Mike I think I also 
saw the unknown from two nights ago.

BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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