RE: Help with Sat ID

From: Ted Molczan via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2021 20:58:19 -0400
Please ignore my earlier message; I accidently hit send before it was complete.

I could see a satellite trail only in the image file https://ibb.co/74Q33My. It disagrees with the reported IOD formatted observations.

I reduced the following data from the end points of the trail:

00000 00 000A   9999 G 20210730205930000 17 25 1810943+060667 37 S
00000 00 000A   9999 G 20210730205938000 17 25 1827125+084407 37 S

The times are approximate; the 8 s difference derives from the duration of the exposure found in the meta data.

I derived an approximate circular orbit:

1 70000U          21211.87465277  .00000000                   0    0
2 70000  52.6766 231.0970 0001000    .0000  54.0495 15.06487474    0

It looks like a Starlink orbit, but I am unable to match it to a specific satellite.

Ted Molczan



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