Watching a high western pass of Iridium 24 I saw several flashes of mag +0 or better. The brightest ones were the first, and the last two: UTC 01-10-19 RA Dec Site #5919 17:15:38.25 19:42.5 -23 Sharp flash Ir 24 17:15:28.95 19:42 -22 Sharp flash Ir 24 17:15:19.96 19:41 -21 Flash Ir 24 17:12:32.45 19:15 -00 Flash Ir 24 17:11:56.06 19:03 +08 Flash Ir 24 17:10:09.59 17:40 +45.5 Flash Ir 24 17:08:22.20 12:08 +66 Flash Ir 24 17:08:10.93 11:38 +64.5 Sharp flash Ir 24 The last flash was only 7.5 degrees above horizon. During this pass, and others I watched, I found and identified bright UARS, and faint Cosmos 1771 and GEOS-3. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Oct 19 2001 - 20:32:29 EDT