ETS 6 (94-056A, 23230) was out around apogee, but it was in an easy location (about RA 0:35, Dec -4.5 [2000]) so I thought I'd try to see it. It was easy (in 10x50s, though I was not able to see any of them without the binoculars). It continued to be easy for more than half an hour. Of course I don't know when it began flashing so brightly, and I don't know when it stopped because I ran out of stopwatch clicks and was getting chilly, tired, and hungry. PPAS report (but it was still easy at 04:32): 94- 56 A 03-10-29 04:17:40 EC 1815.8 0.2 194 9.360 +4.0->inv Here are two previous PPAS from a different pass (in the WSW, roughly RA 20:50 +5, instead of the SSE) seen twice recently: 94- 56 A 03-10-21 03:18:57 EC 433.3 0.2 46 9.418 +4.5->inv 94- 56 A 03-10-24 04:01:18 EC 1155.8 0.2 123 9.397 +4.5->inv But this time I got these five successive sets of 10 cycles each: 93.58, 93.61, 93.58, 93.56, 93.65. So it appears to be speeding up currently. It seemed to me tonight that maybe one of four flashes was the brightest and one was the faintest, maybe like +4.0, +4.5, +4.5, +5.0. ETS 6 1 23230U 94056A 03300.63266776 -.00000097 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 01671 2 23230 011.7186 185.9927 4964684 353.4072 002.1584 01.67093218056055 So it will very nearly repeat the same SSE pass on Halloween (early November 1 UTC), and it will repeat the WSW pass tonight (10/30 UTC). The flash period of Galaxy 7 (22205) also is speeding up: 92- 72 A 03-10-29 02:50:07.5 EC 2035.3 0.2 10 203.53 +1.5->inv 92- 72 A 03-10-18 03:24:10 EC 1227.2 0.5 6 204.5 +3.0->inv 10/29/2003 site was E. Ney Museum grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. 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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