Hi Ed, The flaring geosat season manifests itself in another way too..... Here in the UK the Sun outage period , the peak of the flaring season , is still about ten days away. As a keen TV satellite enthusiast , last week , I inadvertantly left my dish pointing at an inclined comms sat sitting four degrees "above" the geo arc. As the bird was higher in elevation than the main geo belt , it gets hit earlier by sun outage......and to prove it , take a look at http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/ouch.jpg Its the feed horn of my 1.8 metre sat dish........cooked by the heat of the sun ( through thin cloud ) The weather here is still too bad for me to see anything at night , but , this is certainly visible evidence that the flaring geosat season is in full swing ! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Cannon" <edcannonsat@yahoo.com> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:23 PM Subject: flaring geosats > Last night (Monday evening, 1 October local time) I saw 8 or > 9 flaring geosats with my binoculars, including two to four > that were easy to see with my 8x42. At 3:14 UTC, there were > two bright ones 45 degrees (3 hours of RA) apart, one in the > eclipse-entry area, and the other near the meridian. Of > course Mike found some more, fainter ones, with his telescope. > We concluded the session pretty early due to interfering > clouds. > > Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Need a vacation? Get great deals > to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > http://travel.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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