I had promising predictions, but the weather did not match forecast. An hour before I had a 10x50 binocular mag limit of +5, and probably the same at my 23:29 UTC pass. I could find M44 in Cancer with binoculars, where it should pass close above the center. With the telescope in my two degree FOV I found a small cluster of about ten (!) stars which I believed was M44, but afterwards I couldn't match my memory with the star chart :-( Slimmer chance of succeeding on the hyperbolic part at 6500 km range and in the azimuth of the Moon, so I didn't try. I won't have a chance to see anything in the LEO orbit. /Björn 2011/11/9 Ted Molczan <ssl3molcz@rogers.com> > I have just received word from the project that there seems to be a > serious problem. > > After the planned first burn of the engine, the spacecraft was not found > in the predicted orbit. Alternative radar > observations preliminarily show that there are two objects in the orbit > with parameters the same as before the planned > engine burn. Observers are requested to attempt to discover the spacecraft > in the initial LEO parking orbit. > ... > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111109/4e17e7a6/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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