Mark Hanning-Lee posted: >Using mccants.tle, I have seen several predictions of >negative-magnitude passes for the two MDS 1 Fairing >objects, but have never seen them in skies of limiting >magnitude 3. > >The elsets for 90012 MDS 1 Fairing2 are stale, late >2002. Yes, it's probably an hour or two late I would guess. >27369 MDS 1 Fairing1 has current elsets, so why am I >not seeing 27369 MDS 1 Fairing1? Is the standard >magnitude too bright and should it be revised? Yes and no. I did see flashes to about 0 or -1 on a favorable pass at a range of about 600 miles recently. But these flashes occurred only every 8 seconds. In between flashes both were about 4 or 5 magnitude fainter last summer. So I changed the intrinsic magnitude fainter by 4.5 magnitudes. I also changed the IGS Fairings to be one magnitude fainter, but several observers have reported very bright flashes from them. Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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