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 44.6062 N 75.6910 W http://www.kfetter.100megs26.com/ http://ca.geocities.com/kfetter _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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