NOSS 2-3 r??, PPAS, also C* 1378, NOAA 13
Walter Nissen (dk058@cleveland.Freenet.Edu)
Sun, 19 May 1996 11:26:33 -0400
Rainer Kracht's superb elset, below, led me directly to an easy naked-eye
object in Lyra. Thanks.
In this PPAS report (these are all new), the first is one which has been
bouncing around in a crude form for sometime. As has been my consistent
practice, the times given are the times of the first recorded flashes.
PPAS(beginning):
Walter I. Nissen, Jr., CDP, dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu, 55 Barrett RD #808,
Berea, OH 44017-1657, USA, 216-243-4980, -81d 51.823', 41d 22.413', 256m, 7x35
91- 59 B 96-02-10 0:24: 9.9 WN 88.7 1. 6 14.79 C* 2154 r
above accuracy was unrecorded, 1.s is a pure, sheer, guess
92- 73 B 96-05-02 1:47:19.5 WN 149.2 .5 10 14.92 A'A', C* 2218 r, 4?->inv
96- 29 B 96-05-19 8: 6:55.5 WN 1. irr A', mag 1? or 2?
NOSS 2-3 r??, object was fairly steady in Lyr, strong flasher later
Subtract 7.76s
8 7 3.26 8 6 55.50
8 7 15.29 8 7 7.53 12.03
8 7 26.80 8 7 19.04 11.51
8 7 34.29 8 7 26.53 7.49
8 7 39.57 8 7 31.81 5.28
8 7 44.72 8 7 36.96 5.15
8 7 50.50 8 7 42.74 5.78
Total 47.24 / 6 = 7.87
96 5 Year and month (2I5)
41.3735 -81.8637 256. lat, long, hgt (3F10.0)
19 8 6 55.50 6 Start day,hr,mn,sec nbr timings
0.00 0
12.03 1
23.54 2
31.03 3
36.31 4
41.46 5
47.24 6
NOSS 2-3 r
1 23863U 96 29 B 96138.00000000 .00027088 00000-0 25489-3 0 04
2 23863 63.4166 259.8449 0260492 161.2347 298.0299 15.34269679 09
Astrometric position, maybe as good as 1' in arc. Near occultation of
11 delta-1 Lyrae.
NOSS 2-3 r??
96 5 19 8 5 43.47 18 51.98 +36.908 1950
object was about 3 or 4s EARLY wrt above elset from Rainer Kracht
Some combination of morning metabolism, clouds/haze, maneuvers and/or
distraction by Intercosmos 22 denied me any sighting of the putative
payload(s), though I did see some pretty spectacular flashes to mag -1?
from the otherwise invisible:
NOAA 13 7.5 1.9 0.0 5.8
1 22739U 93050 A 96137.29079518 -.00000011 00000-0 19283-4 0 639
2 22739 99.0400 92.3179 0009325 317.8285 42.2171 14.10962828142556
Also
C* 1378 6.0 2.0 0.0 5.9
1 13271U 82059 A 96137.06010578 .00000186 00000-0 20714-4 0 6070
2 13271 82.5052 125.3315 0017758 171.5444 188.6075 14.87004763752483
didn't seem very steady, possibly due to clouds/haze.
Cheers.
Walter Nissen dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu
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