Re: TiPS

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>Alphonse asked if anyone has seen TiPS lately.  I saw it a couple of days
>ago in 10x50's (I normally use my small newtonian scope but didn't this
>time).  The evening 70 deg. pass culminated in the west.  The almost full
>moon was up, but only 6 degrees above the east horizon.  Where TiPS passed
>the visual limiting mag was about 5.  TiPS was about mag 7 (rough guess).
>I used elset published by the Navy Research Lab.
>
>Craig Cholar  3432p@vm1.cc.nps.navy.mil

Ron Dantowicz wrote me in a private mail:
>HI Alphonse-
>
>Tips is slightly off from it's elements.  I tracked it the other night: It
>is about 5 seconds later than expected, and some cross track...
>
>-Ron

I tryed again this evening unsuccessfully.
I use the TLEs given by
http://hyperspace.nrl.navy.mil/TiPS/latest_tips.els

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