video of milstar 6 geo sat flare

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 26 2004 - 13:07:52 EDT

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    Here's a video I captured showing the Milstar 6 geo sat flaring up. 
    
    http://www.kfetter.100megs26.com/satvideo/milstar6.avi
    
    It's in divx format
    
    http://www.divx.com
    
    It was captured on Aug 23 at around 5:53 UTC, as it passed by some bright stars.
    
    So it was in the area of 
    
    RA (J2000.0): 21 h 53 m
    declination -03 d 59 m
    
    It was around mag 7 at the time, so nice and bright:) Peice of cake to see in binoculars.
    
    The orbit of it, as computed by mike mccants
    
    http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants
    
    Milstar 6        8.0  3.0  0.0  4.0 v
    1 27711U 03012A   04237.09714603 0.00000000  00000-0  00000-0 0    03
    2 27711   3.2386 277.7078 0001000 284.6822  75.3177  1.00270000    03
    
    Kevin
    
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    75.6910 W
    
    http://www.kfetter.100megs26.com/
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