Re: Noss 2-3 Rocket - Missing in action ?

Rainer Kracht (r.kracht@elmshorn.netsurf.de)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:10:47 +2 

> Date:          Wed, 24 Sep 1997 22:16:32 +0100
> From:          Ian & Shari Porter <sharian@alphalink.com.au>
> Reply-to:      sharian@alphalink.com.au
> To:            "SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de" <SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
> Subject:       Noss 2-3 Rocket - Missing in action ?

> Attempts to observe the Noss 2-3 rocket in the past few days have been
> duds. I have missed if 3 times on naked eye passes, searching for 5 mins
> each time on each side of the prediction. 
> Has any one observed it in the last two weeks or so ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ian
> 
> (still waiting for Iridium flares :-(   )
> 
> 
Russell Eberst has observed 96-29B this morning as follows:

9602902 043707.38 182258+584504 3.6 8.4 9 R
9602902 043748.97 145646+660653 3.1 8.8 9 R

That is:

1997 Sep 24 04:37:07.38 UTC at RA 18h22m58s DECL +58d45'04"  mag 3.6
1997 Sep 24 04:37:48.97                     14h56m46s             +66d06'53"    
                                                                       1950.0

 Rainer