ST Obs April 8, 2012

From: Scott Tilley (sthed475@telus.net)
Date: Sun Apr 08 2012 - 07:45:47 UTC

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    Hi All
    
    Deja vu?  Almost the same sequence of obs from the previous night expect 
    Lacrosse 5 r instead of Lacrosse 5...
    
    28095 03 054A   8049 G 20120408040837560 15 25 0948444+281243 37 S
    28097 03 054A   8049 G 20120408040843766 15 25 0954386+293054 37 S
    24680 96 072A   8049 G 20120408041139142 15 25 1145225+140264 37 S+020 05
    24680 96 072A   8049 G 20120408041232161 15 25 1207029+345367 37 M+010 10
    32750 08 014A   8049 G 20120408042039448 15 25 1015745+194603 37 S
    38109 12 014A   8049 G 20120408043625360 15 25 2229545+861973 37 S
    35938 09 052B   8049 G 20120408044451800 15 25 1016209+225539 37 S
    35937 09 052A   8049 G 20120408045630398 15 25 0944015+234756 37 S
    28647 05 016B   8049 G 20120408050404485 15 25 0941800+243905 37 S
    38109 12 014A   8049 G 20120408061848000 15 25 1209233+764703 37 S+040 05
    
    Notes:
    1) A stray glimpse of Rigid Sphere 2 occured.
    2) Lacrosse 5 r was about 30 seconds late.
    3) Caught another pass of FIA Radar 2 with similar phase angle as the 
    post I made about the change in appearance noted from the first day in 
    orbit.  I suspect they may have deployed the radar antenna or some other 
    structure that increased the s/c's brightness between my obs at ~0600UTC 
    and that of Bjorn Gimle's at ~1835UTC April 4th.  This would have given 
    NRO ground controllers opportunity during regular business hours :-)  I 
    have video of the above pass if anyone's interested...
    
    Bjorn's report:
    http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2012/0044.html
    
    Regards,
    Scott Tilley
    
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