Thanks to Björn Gimle for inquiring about a discrepancy in my Lacrosse 2 obs report. Probably due to writing under the influence of lack of sleep (which I'm doing again now), I wrote: > Lacrosse 2 (21447, 91-017A) ... east of Aldebaran. It crossed the > azimuth of that star ... at about 9:38:39, while my Quicksat > prediction had it arriving there about 33 seconds earlier than that. Apologies to Mike McCants -- Quicksat had it at that azimuth about 33 seconds LATER than that (about 9:39:12-13)! So I made a 66-second error in my report of that azimuth crossing. Ouch! > It also went within .25 degree or less of (probably below but I > already can't remember that detail) a +4 to +5 star at about > 9:39:29.5.... In looking back at all of this now, it appears that the star possibly was the +5.43 (variable?) HD #35943, Yale #1821 (maybe also called 118 Taurii? [using two different planetarium programs), RA 5:29:16, Dec 25:08:57 (2000). This seems to be the brightest star in the vicinity of where the satellite was predicted to be at 9:40:02-03 (50.5 seconds after the azimuth of Aldebaran). Flashing geosynch: The last two nights Gorizont 14 (17969, 87-40A) has been easy from here using my 10x50 binoculars -- magnitude up to +4.5 and visible for a long period of time, flash period 87.n seconds (two to three seconds more [I almost wrote "less"!] than a month or two ago). Its maximum is slow and sometimes seems possibly to be a double. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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