EV Obs 2024-04-10/11

From: E. Visser via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_lists.seesatmail.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 16:27:34 +0000
A week ago I had found a unid that turned out to be Sarah 2. I had been
trying to see it again the past week, but failed. Thanks Tomi, for
also trying! I was a bit surprised I didn't catch it again, and
reasoned that it should be a bit off and that it probably passed just
besides the camera. Last night I did my first ever plane scan. I used
Sattools, to determine where to aim. Luckily I aimed along the apex of
Starlink sats, which give many nice measurements points in Sattools that
confirmed my manual pointing. I was sitting in the dark garden,
changing the elevation of the tripod mounted camera every few
minutes and quickly restarting the processing of STVID. I started half
an hour early, and finally I got a unid running 9 minutes late. Using
Satfit I could quickly confirm, that I found Sarah 2 again! A few
minutes later it got cloudy.

Now the big question that remains is, what and where is the second
object of this launch? Why does space-track have the names of Sarah-1
[52887 22063A] and the to-be-found Sarah-3 [58644 23204B] swapped?

Sarah 2:
58643 23 204A   0794 E 20240410195046837 17 25 1036934+525723 37 S
58643 23 204A   0794 E 20240410195051598 17 25 1032276+490190 37 S

Classified:
37222 10 062A   0794 B 20240410210842263 17 25 0827557+372452 37 S
21799 91 076C   0794 T 20240410204829958 17 25 0736753+372295 37 S
21799 91 076C   0794 B 20240410204835815 17 25 0742885+421090 37 S
42065 17 011B   0794 E 20240410213113245 17 25 0811088+460580 37 S
42065 17 011B   0794 E 20240410213116651 17 25 0816758+454700 37 S
42058 17 011A   0794 E 20240410213119594 17 25 0812350+462718 37 S


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Best regards,

Eelke
Station number 0794, 53.1096N, 6.1075E, 46m
ZWO ASI174MM, Minolta Rokkor f/1.4 50mm

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