Stellarium does show ETS 6 - Jay Respler Monroe Township, New Jersey On 12/3/21 11:09 PM, ronlee--- via Seesat-l wrote: > On 3 December 2021 around 0049 UT I was waiting for a pass > of the just deployed Starlink G4-3 objects. While scanning > I saw a flash and continued to see flashes during the time > waiting for and observing the Falcon 9 second stage. At one > point the flash was bright enough to possibly be visible to the > naked eye. I was using 7x50 binoculars. > > One day later (this evening) I started looking for it nine minutes > earlier. Scanning did not pick up any flashes and none were > observed for six minutes after the flash time of the day before. > > I ran Skymap with a current complete element set from Space Track > and did not find a match. > > Details on yesterday's observation follows: > > Around 0049 UT on 3 December 2021 [5:49 PM MST..UT-7 on 2 Dec 2021 local) > > RA: 1 hr, 41.6 min. Dec -11.45 degrees > > Az/El ~130/24 > > Location: Falcon, CO, -104.5614, 38.9478, 2073 (104.5614 W) > > My assumption is that this in in supersynchronous orbit so would > arrive at the same AZ/el somewhat earlier in following days. > > It is possible that nine minutes earlier was not adequate. Does > anyone have a guess how much sooner I should look on following > days? > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Dec 06 2021 - 01:49:18 UTC
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