>Alan Pickup has assigned a standard mag of 5.5 for this object >in his select listings. I assume he used observations of other recent delta >second stages. Looking at the pass you tried near 6 am your time this >morning via H-A, and the sun was only 10.8deg below horizon, >the range was 1600Km and I would think the phase angle was near 90. >So the brightness would have been about mag 6.5, not easy to see in >a fairly bright sky. >Tony Beresford Hey all: I think we have hit the nail on the head. =) The sky was still very dark but rapidly brightening as the satellite would have been flying down the back side. I was hoping to catch it on the up-side. =) Anyways -- on to other things. I've been trying to collect Delta boosters, hence my interest in Mars Odyessy R/B. I've observed Deep Space 1 R/B and several GPS R/Bs in the last couple of weeks. It will be very interesting to see the decay pattern for Mars Odyssey R/B in the next few months. Another object I tried this morning with no success was ERS-1 R/B. I live 6 miles from AFETR, and I have seen every launch since August 1995. My favorites have to be Titan IVs. =) Regards: Brad Merritt Island, FL _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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