Optical 22 Oct 2008

From: Greg Roberts (grr@telkomsa.net)
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 11:50:13 UTC

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    Observations 22 Oct 2008
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    Usual equipment.
    
    Site 0433 : Longitude 18.51294 deg East, Latitude  33.94058 deg S,
    Elevation 10 metres-situated in Pinelands (Cape Town),South Africa
    
    
    For CLASSFD.TLE:
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    96088 96 588A   0433 G 20081022211908000 56 15 0127409+031634 39  +110 05
    96088 96 588A   0433 G 20081022212508000 56 15 0133308+033739 39  +110 05
    22787 93 056A   0433 G 20081022213124000 56 15 0138031+023424 39  +100 05
    22787 93 056A   0433 G 20081022212927000 56 15 0136033+023054 39  +100 05
    22787 93 056A   0433 G 20081022214125000 56 15 0147588+025057 39  +100 05
    96010 96 510A   0433 G 20081022184101000 56 15 0138068+061317 39  +110 05
    96010 96 510A   0433 G 20081022185452000 56 15 0157098+062827 39  +110 05
    96050 96 550A   0433 G 20081022191955000 56 15 2251504+060924 39  +120 05
    96050 96 550A   0433 G 20081022192437000 56 15 2256250+062758 39  +120 05
    96059 96 559A   0433 G 20081022192930000 56 15 0042050+160637 39  +105 05
    96059 96 559A   0433 G 20081022193412000 56 15 0047127+163138 39  +105 05
    96060 96 560A   0433 G 20081022194226000 56 15 2255520+025407 39  +125 05
    96060 96 560A   0433 G 20081022194632000 56 15 2258594+031513 39  +125 05
    96080 96 580A   0433 G 20081022195707000 56 15 0224481+031755 39  +130 05
    96080 96 580A   0433 G 20081022200422000 56 15 0232168+035233 39  +130 05
    96084 96 584A   0433 G 20081022201222000 56 15 0147496+003705 39  +120 05
    96084 96 584A   0433 G 20081022201639000 56 15 0151584+005018 39  +120 05
    96079 96 579A   0433 G 20081022202502000 56 15 0014187-033200 39  +120 05
    96079 96 579A   0433 G 20081022203812000 56 15 0027180-030132 39  +120 05
    96089 96 589A   0433 G 20081022204854000 56 15 2202387+061242 39  +135 05
    96089 96 589A   0433 G 20081022205545000 56 15 2209147+063009 39  +110 05
    96098 96 598A   0433 G 20081022210233000 56 15 0024342+090027 39  +120 05
    96098 96 598A   0433 G 20081022211015000 56 15 0032028+093157 39  +120 05
    
    Strays seen:
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    ARIANE 42L   range 36540 kms, variable
    23637 95 040B   0433 G 20081022211908000 56 15 0128539+024809 39  +095 05
    SL-12 R/B(2)  range 12530 kms
    25074 97 076D   0433 G 20081022213124000 56 15 0136179+024123 39  +075 05
    B-SAT 1B geostationary, variable
    25312 98 024B   0433 G 20081022214359000 56 15 0140062+022441 39  +115 05
    ARIANE 44L Debri  ,range 25600 kms, variable
    20718 90 063D   0433 G 20081022214359000 56 15 0135599+022535 39  +090 05
    GORIZONT 22 geostationary
    20953 09 102A   0433 G 20081022195707000 56 15 0223264+032321 39  +120 05
    ARABSAT 1DR geostationary
    14234 83 077A   0433 G 20081022201222000 56 15 0149481+004201 39  +115 05
    
    
    Notes:
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    (1) For a change quite a good night with no clouds :-))
    
    (2) #96089 "recovered"-last observed 236 days ago. Rate it as difficult
        with one bright flash to about mag +11, but rest of time near limit
        of my system.
    
        #96079 "recovered"-last observed 227 days ago. Appears to have a long
        period slow variability of small amplitude
    
        #96098 appears to be reasonably steady
    
        #96059 easy object
    
        #96060 slight variability
    
        #96080 first time observed, difficult faint object
    
        #96010 first time observed, easy object
    
    (4) Following objects NOT seen:
    
        96041, 96044, 96060, 96135, 96138.
    
        Still have a few to check out but elevations currently too low so
        will wait for them to drift higher in cases where they do.
    
    (4) No tracking tonight - cirrus about and I want to spend some time
        putting together a peltier cooling system for the Meade camera.
    
    Cheers
    Greg
    
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