On 5 Jul 99, Brian Webb wrote: > > About a week ago I was looking at the contrast differences on the full Moon > through my 8-inch (20 cm) telescope. I was using a magnification of 51 times. > > Thus far I've been unable to identify it. Perhaps a fellow See-Sat member could > help me to identify it. Here are the specifics of my observation: > > Date (UTC): 1999 June 27 > Time of Lunar Disk Mid-Transit (UTC): 04:31:40 > Observing Site: Lat: 34.3042 N, Long.: 118.8419 W, Elevation: 175 meters I ran SkyMap with Allen Thomson's TLE file from June 25. Nothing shown through the center of the disk. The closest candidate was IntID/Name CatNo Source period Incl Apogee Perigee RCS ------------ ----- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- -------- 1981-053BW 12729 CIS 106.5 83.1 1165 963 0.1022 COSMOS 1275 DEB Launched (1981/06/04) This missed by one lunar disk at about 4:30:43. RCS seems too small to be it. -- Jim __________________________________________________________ Jim Varney -121.398 W, 38.457 N, 10m Member, Sacramento Valley Astronomical Society Sacramento Space Page www.softcom.net/users/jamesv