I forgot to mention I did see several times a faint flash about 1 second before the timed flash. Looked like a weak stray of light from a lighthouse. Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.satlist.nl/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leo Barhorst" <leobarhorst@zonnet.nl> To: "seesat-l" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: LB obs 2005 Nov 30 > And lucky again. In between rainshowers it cleared long enough > for observation of Superbird A. I started looking for it several minutes > early in order to catch the first flash. At the expected > time I saw and timed a faint flash just souyhwest of Procyon at > RA=07:45 d=+4 degrees. > I could follow it for just over 6 minutes. Yesterday I could see > 38 flashes, now just 34 (1 not timed afterwards). The sky was > very clear with just a smaal cloudpatch after the 2nd flash. > The URL explaning the numbers : > http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat > > 89- 41 A 05-11-30 03:41:10.46LB 365.4 0.2 33 11.07 Ff, 3(5)->i > Timings: 22.06 44.43 21.84 22.18 11.06 11.03 11.11 11.02 11.14 > 11.02 11.11 11.05 11.16 11.04 11.00 11.16 10.98 11.11 11.07 11.12 > 11.06 11.08 11.02 11.22 11.03 22.25 sec. > > The period is still going down slowly, now at 11.071 sec. > > 2005: 850 obs > PPAS: 14441 obs > > Greetings and clear, dark skies > Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL > Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL > http://www.satlist.nl/index.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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