Bill Frost posted: >Time Satellite Azm Elv Mag Range S.Azm S.Elv >2006-06-15 18:08:00 MOLNIYA 1-87 294.0 68.6 ? 5936 288.8 -14.0 >2006-06-15 18:34:43 MOLNIYA 3-39 122.1 42.6 ? 3086 285.4 -19.2 >2006-06-15 19:28:12 MOLNIYA 1-91 216.3 10.2 ? 3728 278.7 -29.9 Of course predictions for Molniya payloads are rather different for Australia compared to a northern hemisphere site because the Molniyas have a rather low perigee in the southern hemisphere and a very high apogee in the northern hemisphere. Execution of Highfly produced 90 predictions for 13 Molniya payloads brighter than about magnitude 10 for the Australian night of June 15/16. For a summer night at latitude 30 north, Highfly produced about 25 predictions for 11 Molniya payloads brighter than magnitude 10. Both outputs can be seen at: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/highfly.txt Mike McCants ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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