Hello Marco, Your request 2007/8/8, Marco Salden <marco.salden@gmail.com>: > Trying to spot ENVISAT (as predicted on H-A). on saterday 4th August, I > spotted another satelite that went NE instead of NW. Spotted in Cross at > approx. 22:36 local time which is 20:36 UTC at about 70deg altitude. > Brigthness about +3. Visibility was "fair". Going into North-East > direction (approx 45 deg azimuth). > > H-A did not (at that time) give me a prediction for an other sat. > Location: 51.333degN, 6.017degE (Netherlands, Europe). > Anyone who knows what I might have observed instead? I have tried to identify this satellite. According to my simulation with Guide 8 and using TLE's from August 4 I found that Envisat was at 20h 36m 15s in an area in Cygnus (Swan) where at 20h 40m 18s the rocket of Kosmos 1674 (1985-069B) moved about in the direction you specified. Looking at your location's coördinates I see that it is not so far from me, I guess about 50 km (30 miles). Site 4160: 51.27931 N, 5.47683 E (WGS84), 35 m Bram Dorreman (Belgium) Jr{'rz)ߠZު秶\GB笶*''IKj!i0ƭ(y zƭw^f
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