With Mike's help, I have tried to predict and see flaring geosats outside the 0 inclination belt. As you can see, there are quite a few visible. Only 33414 is in a true geostationary orbit. The others are all north of the belt right now; after the peak date for my (and your) flaring season, ones south would be favored. All these were from downtown Tulsa, with my 12" Dob. TDRS-1 and Galaxy 4R were easily seen in the 6x30 finder. I also looked for several of the 96xxx objects and MiTex (29242), but couldn't see them. Thursday night (clear, still and cold) Classfd.tle 22988 94 009A 8336 E 20090220031850960 57 25 1108009-015965 18 S 22988 94 009A 8336 E 20090220031914360 57 25 1108386-015914 57 S 22988 94 009A 8336 E 20090220032248730 57 25 1111938-015497 37 S 22988 94 009A 8336 E 20090220032440230 57 25 1113817-015177 57 S 22988 94 009A 8336 E 20090220032654960 57 25 1116055-014811 67 S PPAS: 82- 9 A 09-02-20 02:28:37 BY 230.6 0.5 5 46.1 F; 11->inv 36x slow Flaring Geosats: 13969 8336 20090220 0249 W T 000 7 B P TDRS-1 Friday night (passing clouds, windy, cool) 32379 07 060B 8336 F 20090221045454160 17 25 0502680+455367 38 S 32379 07 060B 8336 F 20090221045505040 17 25 0507032+465589 38 S 32379 07 060B 8336 F 20090221045551180 17 25 0520685+513488 38 S 27711 03 012A 8336 F 20090221060744410 57 25 1014270-044178 57 S 27711 03 012A 8336 F 20090221060844740 57 25 1016569-044222 97 S 23696 95 057A 8336 F 20090221064444240 57 25 0940907-005380 37 S 23696 95 057A 8336 F 20090221064752890 57 25 0944097-005426 77 S 11558 79 086A 8336 F 20090221070235270 57 25 1010891-023003 37 R 11558 79 086A 8336 F 20090221070256660 57 25 1011156-023064 37 R 24786 8336 20090221 0345 W T 000 9 B P GOES 10 26298 8336 20090221 0459 W T 000 6 B P GALAXY 4R 33414 8336 20090221 0511 W T 000 10 B P VENESAT-1 23553 8336 20090221 0636 W T 000 11 B P AMSC-1 22796 8336 20090221 0639 W T 000 11 B P ACTS Flaring goesat report format described at: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2008/0068.html TULSA1: COSPAR 8336 +36.1397, -95.9838, 201 m ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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