First, my apologies for the the [DSat] plot, whose topocenter I pasted incorrectly - it should have been Tony's coordinates. I hope somebody in Australia was able to see it (or will be, using later ephemerides) I can definitively confirm Tony's identification below. In a plot against a normal star background the track appears to have an incorrect angle relative to the (fixed) camera, because of the slow speed of the satellite. In SkyMap's horizontal mode, the direction looks perfect. I made a transparent SkyMap plot, overlaid on top of the image to prove it. I also find an even shorter streak below right of delta Corvi. Its direction is a bit difficult to nail down exactly because of its shortness, but it appears to be about 012 degrees rel.to the local RA circles, matching the track of #22828 ItamSat 93-61F, moving N in a 98 degree orbit (a 0.7 sec. flash at about 12:18:22) The exposure time appears to be almost 4 min (the RA separation of beta Corvi and #HP061015), and the time 12:15:30 to 12:19:30 UTC from the position of the track of #13606 1982 100D, Glonass2. My (somewhat stale) elsets: Itamsat 1 22828U 93061F 03146.63423024 .00000094 00000-0 52915-4 0 5051 2 22828 98.2619 172.7591 0009564 315.6283 44.4128 14.29539155471990 82100D 1 13606U 82100D 03140.95347798 -.00000078 00000-0 10000-3 0 7894 2 13606 65.8372 1.2924 0044116 37.9575 322.3994 2.13101524160377 ----- Original Message ----- Sent: den 9 juni 2003 18:14 Subject: Re: unid slow flasher 6/8/03 in Corvus > At 00:15 10/06/03, Y.K CHIA wrote: > >Hi folks: > > > > In reviewing my video for meteor I came across this short streak ( see link for image). Video replay indicated a slow moving satellite with flash cylce of 11 seconds. ( take only a few timing, might not capture the true 'cycle'). I tried alldat.tle and mccantls.tle but with no matches close to the vicinity of this one. Please help to ID. Thanks > > http://www.geocities.com/yeongkwong99/satspatrol2.htm > > ... > > Time: SGP 20:16:42 or UT 12:16:42 > > Direction of travel : southbound pass close to beta Corvus(see image link above) . > I believe this is 13606 1982 100D, Glonass2, USSR navigational satellite, in a 65 degree, > near 12 hour circular orbit. > Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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