Here are my magnitude estimates of "flaring" geosats. I always used a 15 x 80 pair of binoculars. Column headings: cn = NORAD nr sn = international designator name longitude, postive east (Mike M does not like that ;-) azimuth altitude dates in month-day format. All identifications made by using program FINDSAT. All predictions afterwards made by using program HIGHFLY. Mostly I used the four star asterism at following location as reference: star A: 10 11.28 -07.32 star B: 10 11.20 -07.04 star C: 10 13.72 -07.38 star D: 10 13.36 -07.00 coordinates given by program PN. cn sn name geolong AZ alt 2-21 2-22 2-23 2-24 2-25 3-03 3-06 3-07 3-09 22653 93-031A Astra 1C 19.2 163 30 6.3 23200 94-049B Turksat 1B 31.3 148 27 8.0 8.5 7.3 23331 94-070A Astra 1D 24.1 157 29 7.0 8.2 23537 95-016B Hot Bird 1 13.1 170 31 6.3 9.0 23779 96-006A Palapa C1 37.8 141 24 6.3 7.3 23816 96-015A Intelsat 707 -1.1 188 31 8.0 23948 96-040A Arabsat 2A 25.9 154 29 8.0 7.3 23949 96-040B Turksat 1C 42.2 137 22 9.0 8.5 8.0 24652 96-063A Arabsat 2B 30.5 149 27 6.3 6.8 7.3 24665 96-067A Hot Bird 2 12.9 171 31 4.7 24916 97-046A PAS 5 25.9 154 28 5.0 24931 97-049A Hot Bird 3 12.9 170 31 4.7 25049 97-071A Sirius 2 4.7 181 32 7.8 25071 97-076A Astra 1G 19.2 163 30 6.3 25153 98-006B Inmarsat 3-F5 25.0 156 29 9.0 5.3 8.2 25237 98-013A Hot Bird 4 13.1 170 31 9.0 9.0 25358 98-035A THOR 3 -0.9 188 31 7.1 25462 98-050A Astra 2A 28.2 152 28 9.0 25491 98-056A Eutelsat W2 16.0 167 31 7.3 5.8 25495 98-057A Hot Bird 5 29.2 148 27 8.0 8.5 7.3 25515 98-063A Afristar 20.9 160 30 9.0 25638 99-009A Arabsat 3A 25.8 154 28 8.0 9.0 25673 99-018A Eutelsat W3 7.0 178 32 7.7 26243 00-019A SESat 0.0 143 25 7.3 26356 00-024A DSP 20 8.4 176 31 5.0-inv 5.0-inv 26369 00-028A Eutelsat W4 36.0 143 25 8.0 7.3 26494 00-054A Astra 2B 28.1 152 28 7.3 26590 00-068A Europe Star 1 45.0 133 21 9.0 26666 01-002A Turksat 2A 41.9 137 22 6.3 6.3 6.3 26694 01-005A Sicral 1 16.1 166 31 7.3 9.0 26719 01-011A Eurobird 28.5 151 28 6.3 5.7 5.8 26853 01-025A Astra 2C 19.2 163 30 6.3 27441 02-029A Artemis 40.0 139 23 9.0 5.7 27460 02-035A Atlantic Bird 3 -5.0 193 31 8.0 9.0 27499 02-038A Hot Bird 6 12.9 170 31 9.0 Thanks to Mike McCants for having his programs available for other amateurs. I was not always able to identify objects due to objects very close to each other. These objects are not mentioned. Bram Dorreman, COSPAR 4160 (Achel 1): 51° 16' 45.5" N (51.2793 N), 5° 28' 36.6" E (5.4768 E) -----Original Message----- From: Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> To: seesat-l@satobs.org <seesat-l@satobs.org> Date: zaterdag 8 maart 2003 23:42 Subject: USA 89 Rk and flaring geosats >When flaring geosats appear, I still tend to lose >what little coherence I have, so that when I look >at my notes later they're a bit of a challenge to >decipher. But anyway, as best I can figure out, >here are the ones I saw last night: > >without magnification and with 10x50 binoculars -- >23915 96-035A Intelsat 709 (probably this one) >25004 97-059A Echostar 3 >26608 00-072A PAS 1R (probably 1x, but not easy) > >with 10x50 binoculars -- >* two of these three as a very close pair: >23764 96-002A PAS 3R >24891 97-040A PAS 6 >25585 98-075A PAS 6B > >23571 95-023A Intelsat 706 > >* two of these three: >24819 97-027A Inmarsat 3-F4 >25371 98-037A Intelsat 805 >23915 96-035A Intelsat 709 (probably 1x above) > >23199 94-049A Brasilsat B1 (probably this one) >26580 00-067A GE 6 (probably, but maybe 24714 97-002B Nahuel 1A?) >20872 90-091A SBS 6 >25516 98-063B GE 5 (probably this one) > >I guess Intelsats are now officially called "NSS". > >Via Mike's scope and/or 12x80 finder we also saw: > >group of five in one FOV -- >23192 94-047A DirecTV 2 >23553 95-019A AMSC 1 >25937 99-056A DirecTV 1-R >25954 99-060A GE 4 >26985 01-052A DirecTV 4S > >Some DirecTV (or DTV?) sats used to be "DBS". > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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