In spite of it being only 14 degrees above the east horizon and in the Austin city glow, last night Superbird A (89-041A, 20040) was easy to see with binoculars. My times were from about 3:14:15 to 3:16:54, begun after phase shift. (I had been trying to time something else before that.) Thanks to Björn and Tony for writing to say when to look for it. Insat 2D (24820) was brighter than nearby iota Ceti when first observed but was down to +6.5 maxima by end of observation: 97- 27 B 01-10-17 04:08:59 EC 1727.2 0.5 24 71.97 +3.0->inv Its flashes were slow. It moves several degrees farther east from night to night, and I don't know if it's been observed -- with maxima this bright at least -- on two successive nights on any of its apparitions. A few flaring geosats still were visible last night, but they seemed fainter than a week ago and also seemed to be appearing around RA 21:30-35 (2000), which is farther east than a few days ago and almost an hour in RA farther east than in late September. MOS 1-A (87-018A, 17527) is doing easy one-power flashes each night right now for our location: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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