Saturday morning (local) I went out to watch Perseids but took a handful of satellite predictions with me. AMS 4 (DMSP F4, 11389, 79-050A) had 90-day-old elements, and my Quicksat predictions had a 3.4-minute uncertainty. After failing to find it a few degrees right of Polaris, I lay on my meteor-watching lawn chair and looked for it just west of beta Andromedae. It appeared and passed a degree or two west of that star at about 10:46:23, which made it roughly 2:50-51 (170-171 seconds) later than my predictions. I saw 11 other satellites, including the NOSS 2-2 trio. Eight of the 12 were accidental one-power ones that went through the part of the sky where I was watching for Perseids. 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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