Returning from a public event at my astronomy club, I was just in time to search for USA 161 22:28 to to 22:48 UTC. At 22:45:43 I had a mag 4 steady object pass below Polaris, direction relative to the vertical matching predicted orbits. ten second later I measured it traversing the 5 deg FOV in 3.7 s - too fast for USA 161. At 22:46:38 I found the first identifyable asterism (95% certainty?) 26934 01 044A 5919 G 20100424224638000 28 25 0311153+565709 48 S+050 10 This would make it about 9 min late on Russell-Ted elset, 5 min early but a lot off-track on mine. I find only one matching time/position in classfd+catalog_3l_2010_04_25_am, but going in the opposite direction. At 22:31:14 I saw three bright flashes, matching the characteristics of my Apr.19 obs (but fainter) The first one was above Polaris, the last one to the right, so it was most certainly NB. On Apr..19 the closest match was Topex/poseidon, last night a very unlikely Cosmos rocket. Around 22:41:47 a mag +2 NB UNID was passing "near" the head of Draco, fading in the NE "Best" match is 99-025 DEC !? Observations are, as I always do, reported in IOD format: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html Equipment: Stopwatch 100 (80) lap times, speaking clock 1ms accuracy over phone Cheap binocular 10 (7)x 50, Meade LXD-55 SN-8" f/4, usually at 25 x -- Björn Gimle -- -- COSPAR 5917, STAR, +18.05447 (E), +59.34185 (N), 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5918 WGS84, +18.10127 (E), +59.29813 (N), 44 m -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, +18.6206 (E), +59.2615 (N), 33 m -- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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