Binocular observation of the rather faint USA 40 R. If I've calculated them correctly using fitelem, residuals are rather high, but consistently and in the same direction for all three points (-0.2 for RA and +0.2 for Dec). Satellite was running about 93 seconds early from the 47-day old elset. 20344 89 061D 8333 E 20000930100034740 27 25 0433960+162278 48 S+070 10 20344 89 061D 8333 E 20000930100158050 27 25 0448875+211992 48 S+070 10 20344 89 061D 8333 E 20000930100615370 27 25 0600357+395053 48 S+080 10 Odd, at about 10:04 UT somewhere in the vicinity of RA 5h 20' Dec +30 51' what looked very much like a Noss trio crossed the path a couple degrees ahead of USA 40 R going approximately NNW to SSE. Probably mag 6-7 and speed perhaps a little faster than USA 40 R. I cannot find any satellite in mccants.tle or Alan Pickup's satbase.tle that suggests a match. -- Wayne Hughes 33.8601N 83.2418W 270m Wolfskin Station 8333 Arnoldsville GA USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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