Hi all, Okay, so again I failed to observe IGS 1B (03-009B), it being too faint for the naked eye in my urban environment, plus too faint for the camera. This time it was at a zenith pass (starting 21:30:00 UTC with eclipse emergence in Ursa Major, in the zenith), and a good clear sky. Not a sign of it... :-( And that is odd. Because before it failed some time ago, I could always easily see and photograph the object, especially during a zenith pass like this. It would then easily attain +2 to +1.5 in the old days, clearly visible. Have any of the recent observers of this object noted it too to be fainter than before? I just wonder why a power failure on the sat would suddenly make it fainter. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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