Starshine 3 (26929) was seen for the first time here in months. In spite of a gibbous moon, we had a very clear sky and I tracked it in 25x150 binoculars for 47 seconds before losing it. It was initially mag +7 at altitude 49, azimth 47, then after 36 seconds brightened to + 4 magnitude before falling back to +7. The range was 410km and there were no flashes visible. The appearance was that of an object in very slow rotation. ===== Paul D. Maley 29.6049N, 95.1069W, alt.6m email: pdmaley@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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