Hello everyone, I observed the Ikar stage from the Globalstar Soyuz rocket make a nice pass this evening, Feb. 29 at 23:43 UT. Interesting visual behavior with short and bright flashes ( about mag 1) at about 15 deg above horizon to the west. As it rose, its flashes became longer but very irregular. Near culmination, at 30 deg elevation to the southwest, it was visible for a few seconds at a time. Just before shadow entry, it was visible almost all the time but in varying magnitude. A flash period could not be determined and the max magnitude was about zero. Positional data has been taken that proved this object to be on track but quite early, being 50 sec ahead of time with OIG elset : SOYUZ R/B(1) 1 25947U 99058E 00060.90561250 .02277410 11509-4 98101-3 0 2361 2 25947 51.9239 307.0298 0090325 197.9614 161.8315 16.12396505 20727 and 47.5 sec ahead with Alan's predicted elset : Globlstar 31 r 6.0 3.0 0.0 4.5 d 19 298 x 179 km 1 25947U 99058E 00061.02950056 .02438344 19284-2 99070-3 0 92345 2 25947 51.9246 306.3631 0089701 198.1655 161.5119 16.13093800 20746 Altitude was 227 km and minimum range 445 km. I won't be able to watch this one for a couple of days because of incoming bad weather. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Québec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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