Whether I need any sleep or not.... The ISS+STS-106 pair were not quite as bright as Sirius, but it was not a great pass. (That should be Friday morning.) However, I watched them for over four minutes, from just above some trees in the south until they went behind some clouds in the ENE. I was fortunate enough to see a bright (+2.5 maxima at least, quite slowly tumbling) pass of the USA 89 Rk (22519, 92-086C). It was near perigee and moving *very* rapidly. Good old 00694 (Atlas Centaur, 63-047A) was very bright (+1.5 at least), as was UFO F2 Rk (22788, 93-056B -- maxima got brighter as phase angle got worse). Both were near perigee. AMS 4 (11389, 79-050A, a.k.a. DMSP F4) must have been fairly close to on-time for me to find it easily. Some of its maxima were very bright, probably visible one-power. Saw a few one-power flashes from Iridium 920 (24871, 97-034C) but none from Iridium 44 (25078, 97-077B). Location was 30.3068N, 97.7267W, 150m -- not far from my apartment. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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