In a message dated 8/17/01 5:58:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, c.g.bassa@phys.uu.nl writes: > The flashes occured in and near the triangle made of Alpha, Gamma and > Epsilon Cygni. The first flash occured roughly at 20:21:09 UT, the second > at 20:21:32 and the last at 20:21:51. More flashes were probably visible > but I was rushing back in the house to write down these observations > because I was bound to forget those numbers. > > The first flash was right (in azimuth) of Gamma and Epsilon Cygni, the > second in the triangle and the last just outside the triangle with the > satellite moving roughly parallell along Alpha and Gamma Cygni, heading > North. > > The observation site was at 51°51'54" N and 05°10'25" E and -2 meters > elevation. > > The flash pattern was multiple. Per flash there was a bright (-3?) flash > followed with a lesser bright (-1?) one with in a second, seen on the last > two flashes. > > I hope someone can ID this sat. I haven't seen flash reports for this object, but Satellite Hunting (WGS-84 BTW) puts Cosmos 1437 rocket at the right place and time. Satellite Hunting output (edited to fit) Cosmos 1437 rocket -- COSPAR 13771 -- SL-3 R/B 1983-003B U.T.C. Elev. Azimuth Right Ascension Declination 20:17:35 20° 357° [N] 06h 47m 04s 59° 05' 20.47" 20:20:30 65° 078° [E] 21h 04m 31s 49° 28' 58.74" 20:23:19 20° 154° [S] 20h 11m 11s -16° 23' 27.32" Cosmos 1437 r 3.8 2.6 0.0 5.1 v 1 13771U 83003B 01226.74185217 +.00001632 +00000-0 +15077-3 0 07374 2 13771 081.1618 114.7514 0038928 225.1124 134.6929 14.93537289005129 Regards, Stephen http://stephen.fathom.org/sathunt.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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