Last night I aimed at Intelsat 1R ( 26608 ) and went to work. Problem is, as I played back the video captured last night, I noticed a slow moving sat. When I went to see, what's in the area = I have a problem. Nothing matches the path taken, at the time shown. So I will now have do a search for object's that show up late are early, and pass by the area. It was observed to be flashing. Won't be suprised if it's in a geo transfer orbit, are something in a high orbit. At 5:32:29 utc ( Apr 19 ) the sat passed between 2 stars. They are Data from the Tycho catalog: TYC 5044 214 Johnson V magnitude: 6.394 ± 0.018 J2000 position at current date (proper motion included): Right ascension: 16h05m59.7850s and YC 5044 998 1 Johnson V magnitude: 6.424 ± 0.018 J2000 position at current date (proper motion included): Right ascension: 16h05m44.5999s Declination: -06 17' 27.973" It was going in a southen direction. Never know what I'll see :) Kevin _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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