hello, after quite a long time I observed my favourite object again yesterday morning. Gorizont 23 = 91- 46 A = 21533 was already low in the west and will become visible over America from now one. It was nicely visible with binoculars like it usually is flashing every minute to mag + 7. 91- 46 A 04-10-19 03:55 KJ 608.3 0.1 10 60.83 mag +7 Period is currently 60.83 seconds, more or less similar to what Don Gardner saw in August (see PPAS entries below from Mike McCants PPAS index page). http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/ppas/index.html This maximum period during the last two months is probably again the start of an acceleration of the rotation of the Gorizont body, as was also seen in 2003 (58.3 seconds in August and 58.0 seconds in December) and in the years before, mostly during the autumn timeframe. See http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/kj/gorizont.htm 91- 46 A 03-07-27 21:39 MJ 0.4 58 58.01 T=2146.5, max mag 6 91- 46 A 03-08-18 04:40:08.9 EC 931.6 0.2 16 58.23 +5->inv 91- 46 A 03-08-19 01:54:58.6 JDG 815.3 0.3 14 58.23 +7.0->inv 91- 46 A 03-08-20 03:35:55.4 PG 0.2 21 58.25 T=1223.2, +4.5->inv 91- 46 A 03-08-21 04:02:17.3 PG 0.2 78 58.253 T=4543.7, +4.0->inv 91- 46 A 03-08-26 04:55:42.2 PG 0.2 50 58.281 T=2914.0, +4.5->inv 91- 46 A 03-08-28 04:36:24.8 PG 0.2 88 58.291 T=5129.6, +4.5->inv 91- 46 A 03-12-17 21:28 MJ 0.1 19 58.07 T=1103.4, F, 4.0->i 91- 46 A 03-12-18 20:33 MJ 0.1 25 58.07 T=1441.9, F, 4.0->i 91- 46 A 04-01-08 03:25:37.7 JDG 464.3 0.3 8 58.03 6.0->i 91- 46 A 04-01-10 03:34:19.5 JDG 290.1 0.3 5 58.0 +7.5->inv 91- 46 A 04-01-18 04:30:44 EC 928.6 0.2 16 58.04 +5.5->inv 91- 46 A 04-08-17 01:41:41.3 JDG 851.8 0.3 14 60.84 +7.5->inv 91- 46 A 04-08-22 02:40:37.9 JDG 547.7 0.4 9 60.85 +6.0->inv Observations from Michel Jacquesson, Ed Cannon, Paul Gabriel and Don Gardner. Enjoy observing this one ! Kurt Jonckheere ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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