After thin clouds yesterday and this morning the sky now was clear long enough to look for the NROL-35 payload USA-259 [40344/14081A]. These observations were taken with the DSLR on a tripod from the garden, some 30m from the normal location of site 4171. The images were triggered from the laptop that had a wifi connection. USA-259 was fainter than the other Trumpet objects USA-184 [29249/06027A] and USA-200 [32706/08010A]. As I don't typically observe in this part of the sky this may be due to phase angle differences, but it could also be intrinsic to the satellite. 40344 14 081A 4171 G 20141214181709302 27 25 1609640+422383 17 S 40344 14 081A 4171 G 20141214181800278 27 25 1610398+423276 17 S 40344 14 081A 4171 G 20141214181817299 27 25 1610657+423553 17 S 40344 14 081A 4171 G 20141214182044265 27 25 1612833+430038 17 S 40344 14 081A 4171 G 20141214182135328 27 25 1613630+430837 17 S 40344 14 081A 4171 G 20141214182152262 27 25 1613851+431125 17 S ------------------------------------------------------------------ Setup: EOS70D, 85mm F/1.4, 10s _at_ 800ISO, NexStar mount, NTP timing IOD format: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html COSPAR 4171: 52.8344N, 6.3785E, 10m (WGS84) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Dec 14 2014 - 12:55:23 UTC
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