stumbled onto EGP ( Feb 10'03 -9:11pm)

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Hi folks:

     Seeing the False Cross hanging rising out of my window, I was 
tempted to do some star fields/meteor  imaging and just minutes into 
staring at the b/w monitor - a rapid white flashing satellite crawled 
across the screen - it was like a FireFly...flashing multiple times per 
seconds ( sorry did not time) and pretty regular cycles...

      Then came the ID part - it took me a long while to get the pc 
working. The latest Win2000 running skymap65 had a screen jumbled up 
(but work fine for star-map plotting and I was using the ansi.com 
utility) but I  couldn't fix in a flash that so  I 'abandoned'  this pc 
and  changed to the slower P1 pc.  After a little tweaking ( narrowing 
the prediction in minutes, cut-off at mag 4.5 did not capture it and 
changed it back to 8 ..) and found  the match - it was EGP!


rgds
ykchia
Singapore

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