I tried this night to spot WGS 4. I used Mike's integrated cogo tle to look for it (epoch 13089.471). Other unclassified nearby geosats (ST 2 [37606], CHINASAT 5A [25354] and KAZSAT 2 [37749]) were found where they should be according to last space-track's elsets while WGS 4 was about 0.2 deg Xtrack and 35 s late. WGS 2, Vortex 6 and WGS 4: 34713 09 017A 1244 G 20130331182115300 37 15 1110284-063533 69 S 34713 09 017A 1244 G 20130331182136760 37 15 1110511-063604 69 S 34713 09 017A 1244 G 20130331182308600 37 15 1112222-063544 59 S 34713 09 017A 1244 G 20130331182355500 37 15 1113084-063544 59 S 34713 09 017A 1244 G 20130331181903700 57 15 1108168-063550 69 S 19976 89 035A 1244 F 20130331192318600 37 15 1425499-090329 49 S 19976 89 035A 1244 F 20130331192741500 57 15 1430571-091328 49 S 19976 89 035A 1244 F 20130331200647580 37 15 1517155-104004 59 S 38070 12 003A 1244 F 20130331193900200 37 15 1430374-061917 59 S+110 10 38070 12 003A 1244 F 20130331193803600 37 15 1429406-061927 59 S 38070 12 003A 1244 F 20130331200911060 37 15 1500531-061929 29 S Used CCD camera EVS VNC-753-H2 on 12cm refractor (FOV is 36'x27'). Captured frames onto the computer. Clock synced via NTP. Processed with ObsReduce. Determined magnitude in comparison with nearby stars. Best regards, Andriy Makeyev COSPAR 1244: 44.3932°N, 33.9701°E, 68.7 m _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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