Obs SatTrackCam Leiden (Cospar 4353), 11 April 2007: 24680 96 072A 4353 F 20070411195701100 17 75 1208122+183980 56 +010 10 24680 96 072A 4353 F 20070411195711800 17 75 1211283+218330 56 +020 10 24680 96 072A 4353 F 20070411195801100 17 75 1234413+402430 56 +035 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Method: Canon Digital Ixus 400 + ASTRORECORD astrometric software. Camera at manual mode, "10 second" (= 10.7 second) exposure, wide field f2.8/7.41 mm. What these numbers mean: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hrmpf! In the end 96-072A at its 19:58 UTC pass remained the only catch of this evening.... :-( I did see 96-072A at its second pass (21:35 UTC) low west too, seeing it briefly flare to +1 at 21:34:35 UTC: but when my camera opened it already was too faint. In addition I failed to see IGS 1B (03-009B) both naked eye and with the camera and that surprises me, even though admittedly the attempt was at its emergence from eclipse (21:31 UTC) so it might have been too faint. 30 seconds after eclipse emergence and at 50 degrees elevation, I would expect to see it however, but didn't. There is not a trace of it on the image either. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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