(meteorobs) strange sight in Pegasus
Andy Smith
andy-mobs at television.f9.co.uk
Sat Aug 14 18:41:34 EDT 2004
2 messages forwarded as found in the SEE-SAT mail-list:
#1
NOAA 13 (93-050A, 22739) did a spectacular series of seven or eight
bright double flashes (about .20-.25 second separation) as it went down
in the north, well past culmination. The brightest maxima were probably
-2. Its flash period is around 15 seconds.
MDS 1 (02-003A, 27367) did two or three very bright flashes in the
southeast, probably would have been visible without binoculars.
Molniya 3-42 (92-067A, 22178) was visible without binoculars high in the
south, flashes to at least +3.
BCRC, August 14 UTC (Friday evening Aug 13 CDT).
Ed Cannon - ecannon at mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
#2
While looking for Cosmos 2217 last night, I was startled by very bright
flashes from an object that I later identified as Molniya 3-42.
The flashes were magnitude 2 or 3 with a period of 7.5 seconds as seen
in a 12x80 finder scope. The Molniya was about magnitude 10.5 between
flashes in a 20cm telescope.
About 3:31, both objects were in the same field of view about 1/2 degree
apart as the Cosmos (magnitude 9-10 varying slowly) overtook the
Molniya.
Molniya 3-42
1 22178U 92067A 04218.72890936 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 8402 2
22178 63.8335 103.3614 7165971 255.0449 21.8438 2.00617076 86530
Cosmos 2217 1 22189U 92069A 04218.76720166 .00000051 00000-0 00000+0
0 242 2 22189 66.9918 102.2035 6704475 233.3214 44.9342 2.00974483
86420
Lat 30.314 N Long 97.866 W 2004 Aug 13 Times are UT
22178 Molniya 3-42 92 67A 19 M 4.5
Mag Hrs Min Alt Azi Hgt Range R A Dec
9.8 3 30 76 242 5795 5862 17 31.5 23.1
9.5 3 35 71 215 5069 5187 17 45.5 14.4
22189 Cosmos 2217 92 69A 17 M 4.5
Mag Hrs Min Alt Azi Hgt Range R A Dec
9.1 3 30 76 244 4376 4437 17 29.7 23.5
8.7 3 35 67 204 3737 3895 17 51.1 8.8
Mike McCants
Austin, TX
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Andy Smith
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