I watched Nimbus 7 make a pass over a week ago, and it seemed to brighten and fade, then brighten again before it entered Earth's shadow. I wasn't able to...

I just caught 04037C. The bird is flashing approximately fifteen times per minute. It's a Zenit-2/SL-08 upper stage, and H-A gives its orbital altitude as...

This is excerpted from a post just made to sci.space.news. According to heavens-above.com, the MUBLCOM rendezvous target should be visible from North America...

Cosmos 1030 shed a piece of debris about a day before it re-entered last night. Apparently the object came off due to aerodynamic forces during one of the...

It appears to be tumbling slowly. I can't estimate the rate because the sky was moderately bright (less than an hour before dawn) and it faded from view...

I just spotted Nimbus 7 (78098A) in clear skies. For most of the pass it was just visible in 10x50 binoculars, but about once every fifteen seconds it it...

This is excerpted from from "Jonathan's Space Report #547" as posted by Jacques van Oene on sci.space.news "Alarmingly, it now seems...

I just spotted Naxing-1 (04012C). It was flashing irregularly. Much of the time it was visible to the naked eye, up to magnitude 3 in brightness, but it faded...

Heavens-Above lists a new bit of debris from NOAA 7, which has shed debris before. The new bit of debris (1981-059J) appears to be from a recent event, given...

.. . . but let's admit it. How many of us have gone out to observe SeaSat, and as it makes its pass found ourselves saying "SeaSat . . . SeaSat run . . . run,...

I spotted Shenzhou 5 twice this morning. The first apparition came at 5:28 MDT, when it was at sixth magnitude and low on the horizon. The second apparition...

This is copied from a post on sci.sxpace.news. --Bill Thompson ------------------------------------------------- In JSR 534 I incorrectly reported that the...

This morning the Shenzhou 6 booster appeared to change in brightness several times during its pass; also, it appeared a minute later than predicted on H-A. It...

Folks hereabouts may enjoy the mystery shown in today's Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050208.html The all-aky CCD cameras at...

This morning's sighting of a flare from Iridium 46 marked a milestone for me - I've now seen flares from all the operational Iridium satellites (defined...

On the evening of August 21 (2047 CDT, which would be 0147 UT on the 22nd), I noted three bright, slow, and irregular flares from an object moving northward...

I've had a gratifying response to my request for additional reports of telescopic tracking of the Apollo missions in' translunar coast.On a related topic,...

Consider this a "want ad" for observations of the Apollo lunar missions. I first started collecting pointers to this stuff while doing intro-astronomy lectures...

This came up a few weeks ago while I was travelling - so here goes. Just to confirm which ones show irregular flashes while tumbling, I leafed through my...

After working at it for almost four hours, members of my Observational Astronomy class look to have gotten an image of Stardust with our 0.4m telescope,...