From the grounds of the E. Ney Museum (30.307N, 97.727W, 150m.), I got a rough position for Progress: RA 8:37:59, Dec +64.8 (2000). Its magnitude was about +4.5 I think. It went into the Earth's shadow before reaching RA 9:06, Dec +67 -- at least as seen with my 10x50s. My prediction was using these elements: PROGRESS M1-10 1 27823U 03025A 03159.81873566 .00249204 00000-0 90734-3 0 60 2 27823 51.6315 62.8409 0007281 299.1767 131.1563 15.87206054 67 I tried to see its Soyuz Rk very low in the NNW, but it may have been behind some trees or obscured by cloud, or too faint. I was able to see ISS on two passes, first low in the NNE in spite of some cloud, second low in the WSW. Some PPAS obs: BS 2B PKM (16600) -- 86- 16 C 03-06-09 02:26:56 EC 56.3 0.5 10 5.63 +4.5->inv IRS-P2 (23323), a handful of very bright flashes beginning as it was rising from the south, well before culmination -- 94- 68 A 03-06-09 03:15:51 EC 105.1 0.4 9 11.68 -2 ->inv Alsat 1 Rk (Rubin 3, 27561) -- 02- 54 C 03-06-09 04:44:32 EC 34.2 0.2 20 1.71 +5 ->inv I'm having to move my web site; the new URL is: http://wnt.cc.utexas.edu/~ecannon/satellite.htm (changed from wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon). The old VMS system is being shut down soon. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jun 09 2003 - 05:13:00 EDT