After a splendid sunny day, with a beautifull blue sky, the eving sky was excellent. With the help of earth's natural satellite, the moon, I was able to see Venus in the early afternoon using my bino's. Later that evening with the sun still some 5 degrees above the horizon Venus was visible with the unaided eye. Saw several bright meteorsin my FOV while observing. Towards local midnight more and more haze and some fog came in; that puts a nice halo around the moon and Venus. 00- 47 A 04-04-24 20:19:09.83LB S, 4 26473 00 047A 4252 F 20040424201909830 17 25 0654058+335269 38 S+040 05 26473 00 047A 4252 F 20040424202125560 17 25 2226706+784715 37 S+040 05 ObsReduce and Pierre's latest TLE showed a slighty different path than I observed. 01- 32 B 04-04-24 21:08 LB S, 3.5 01- 56 F 04-04-24 21:03:24 LB 251.5 0.5 9 27.9 AA, 3->i Timings: 25.83 28.47 27.52 27.21 27.42 28.21 27.59 30.91 28.36 sec. 02- 37 D 04-04-24 20:16 LB var, 5->6 02- 54 C 04-04-24 22:14:10 LB 107.5 0.5 27 3.98 FF, 4->i, N? Timings: 8.20 4.12 3.86 3.65 7.10 9.32 7.06 5.51 2.94 7.20 8.53 7.80 5.77 2.55 7.67 9.03 7.18 sec. 03- 9 C 04-04-24 20:57 LB S, 2 03- 37 C 04-04-24 21:29:37 LB 123.3 0.2 20 6.16 FF, 4->i Timings: 5.90 5.80 6.51 5.89 6.59 6.37 5.97 5.74 6.21 6.53 5.96 5.93 6.32 6.11 6.71 5.67 6.64 5.86 6.19 6.39 sec. 04- 14 A 04-04-24 19:50:24 LB 117.7 0.5 6 19.6 AA, 2(4)->i Timings: 17.22 18.95 24.95 56.56 sec. Some max were flat and not timed. Sky still bright, but easy to follow. Didn't see the orange color reported by other observers. 65- 65 C 04-04-24 20:32:05 LB 39.5 0.2 12 3.29 FF, 5(6)->i Timings: 3.02 3.38 3.10 9.51 4.28 1.53 9.38 5.30 sec. Missed several max. 70- 25CD 04-04-24 20:49 LB var, 7->i 84-123 A 04-04-24 19:57:49 LB FF,var, 1(4->i Timings: 7.87 17.81 46.16 38.09 44.55 7.14 sec. Irr flashing with two bright flashes to mag 1, one double. 86-100 B 04-04-24 21:43:53 LB 36.3 0.5 5 7.3 AA, 7->i Timings: 5.46 7.08 8.61 9.08 6.06 sec. 88- 20 A 04-04-24 21:37 LB S, 5 90- 10 A 04-04-24 20:39 LB S, 6 91- 19 B 04-04-24 21:15 LB almost S, 5 91- 81 B 04-04-24 21:17 LB almost S, 7 97- 30 G 04-04-24 22:02:58 LB 88.6 0.5 28 3.16 FF, Irr, 1(3)->i Timings: 1.61 1.99 1.67 2.20 1.85 2.11 3.61 2.34 3.34 5.88 1.47 4.20 1.61 5.71 4.29 1.58 3.06 2.60 6.20 5.50 2.61 2.54 2.96 3.11 2.83 2.67 3.01 2.96 3.09 sec. 97- 64 A 04-04-24 20:46 LB S, 4 97- 64 A 04-04-24 22:25:33.53LB S, 3 25017 97 064A 4252 F 20040424222533530 18 25 1020480+201181 18 S+030 05 25017 97 064A 4252 F 20040424222602380 17 25 1113988+151960 48 S+030 05 With Pierre's latest TLE ObsReduce showed the sat passing just south of Gamma Leo, while I saw it pass north of it. For the second point I saw it passing much closer to Theta Leo. 2004: 191 obs PPAS: 12247 obs Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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