If "straight up" it would pass right or left of stars? "north of" = to the right of ? Alp Ser was about 1.0 deg below your pos, and at az 242, alt 49 How high was the satellite at eclipse, 15 seconds later? Within +-5 min everything I found in satbase.tle from about 01224.2 (Aug 12.2) going "up" was 59-1B (02:56) - recent launch ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> To: <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 7:25 AM Subject: UNID > I was getting ready to look for Sich 1 when I saw a +2 UNID in > the west, going nearly straight up. Fortunately, it went a > fraction of a degree north of an easy star, alpha Serpentis > Caput, so the position was approximately RA 15:48, Dec +6.85 > (2000), at about 3:01:00 August 16 UTC. Quickly deploying my > binoculars, I was able to see that it appeared to enter shadow > about 15 seconds later. I don't yet have a new operational ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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