> >I was walking near Tucson (Long.=-109.9 Lat.=32.4) on October 21 > at > >about 11:20 UTC watching for Orionids when I noticed a ³stationary² > >flashing satellite at approximately R.A.=3h 38m Dec.=-12d. > Without a > >watch, my best guess is that the close to first magnitude flashes > were > >spaced about 6.5 seconds apart. I saw maybe a dozen flashes before > they > >quickly dimmed to invisibility. Can anyone identify this object > for me? > >Iım also wondering if I detected a very slight eastward movement in > the > >two minutes of observation. > This was 94 56A known as ETS-6, a well known flasher Jim. Your time > was withhin 2 seconds and your position within 0.2 degrees which is > spot on. > The eastwards movement was probably real. This is in a > geosynchronous but not geostationary > orbit ( it does 5 orbits in 3 days or 1 2/3 orbits per day). A magnitude of 1 of a geosynchronous satellite seems quite bright to me (if it was in a 300x300 orbit, then it probably would have looked like an Iridium flare). Does anyone know what are the brightest geosynchronous flashes observed? Additionally, why is it the ETS-6 is not in the Heavens-Above database (yet ETS-7 is, BTW) ? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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