Afternoon I had a fair amount of favourable comment about my posting the item on the Western Satellite Research network recently.As a result of a request from Allen Thomson I have scanned the second report I have and possibly there may be one or two other readers interested in getting a copy as well? Details of the report are as follows: North American Rockwell Space Division report SD70-55, dated 1 July 1970. Subject: Optical Characteristics of Artificial Satellites Authors: Gary A.McCue, James G.Williams and Joan M.Morford. The main part of the document contains 39 pages. The Chapter headings are: 1. Introduction .........................................................................Pag e 1 2. Satellite Brightness Theory ................................................. Page 3 3. Statistical Properties of the Observational Data ..................Page 9 4. Observations versus theory ..................................................Page 25 5. Conclusion ...........................................................................P age 38 References ...........................................................................P age 39 Chapter 3 is the one probably of most interest to readers. I have scanned the document at 300dpi and the resultant images are just over a megabyte each in BMP format. On compression with ZIP the entire document is then just over 2 Megabytes in size. Due to limitations with my, and possibly other peoples servers, I have split the file into 4 parts , so should be okay for most, if not all systems. Let me know if you would like a copy e-mailed to you. I will wait for about a week for all replies and will then do a bulk posting with one upload so that I dont run up too big a telephone account! In addition to the observers mentioned in my earlier WSRN report, the following additional ones are mentioned in this report: Larry Howard (Van Nuys), D.Charles (Walnut Creek), C.Evans (China Lake), R.Jenkins (Rochester), A.Beresford ( Adelaide - anybody every heard of Tony :-))) ) , K.Wells and R.Gliebe(San Jose), R.Emmons (Akron-Canton), A.Harris(Newberg), J.Rouse(Madison), P.Russell(Wichita), L.Deming(Terre Haute), S.Sells (Prairie Village) and F.Ball(San Antonio). Finally this report contains no reports of invidual observations of satellites. Best wishes from a cloudy rain/wind swept Cape Town! Greg ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cospar Site 0443. Long 18.5129E,Lat 33.9405S Near Cape Town, South Africa. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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