This is actually the fourth launch of Starlink satellites but the first was considered 0.9. I took the TS Kelso provided element set from the 6 January 2020 (EST) launch and updated to the current launch time of 1720 UT on 20 January 2020 using Adj2line. The ending values may be off since I could not get a checksum program to verify it. It does seem to work ok in Rob Matson's Skymap. Better elsets are welcome. The two provided by Marco and TS Kelso for the 6 January launch were great. STARLINK-3 SINGLE SAT 20 Jan 2020 1720 UT 1 72001C 20001B 20020.76496062 .00967871 00000-0 22177-2 0 09 2 72001 053.0046 276.5571 0009525 327.1024 294.0471 15.96209869 11 7 I ran predictions for various cities in the mainland USA and none showed great passes in the initial days. The best so far is central Colorado which has a nine degree pass rising around azimuth 327 degrees at 611 PM and due north around 614 PM MST just before entering shadow. Note that I saw the previous set of satellites the morning after launch before sunrise at a maximum elevation of about four degrees (using binoculars) so check your own visibility and don't let a low elevation pass prevent you from trying to see them early on. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Jan 16 2020 - 21:28:43 UTC
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