At last, clear weather Fri 9 am to 1 pm, on a company "kick-off" in the Stockholm archipelago! Then overcast again, snow in the evening, and several times Saturday. Back at Malma, it cleared again in the afternoon, and I had a beautiful predicted pass of the Centaur .6 deg above, and the leader/trailer .1 degree either side of beta Andromedae 16:40 local! But :-( I relocated the scope too late to catch the rocket. I saw the leader and the trailer, but the stopwatch was in "Stop" so my clicks didn't "click". Some twenty minutes before, I should have seen USA 161 "dead on" Arcturus, then USA 116 "dead on" 34 Boo (near epsilon). Because of lack of practice, I didn't have time to do an alignment in time, and missed USA 161. I had to hand-point the scope to what I thought was eps/34 Boo, 0.65 d apart Later, I found that the stars where alp/gam CrB, 1.85 d apart; bad memory/lack of practice made me misjudge the width (1.9 d for my 40 mm eyepiece) and the orientation of the equatorial/newtonian/mirror-inverted field. (Sun was "just" 9.5 d below horizon - but it was in the West) I went in for dinner, and after that the overcast/fog of the last six weeks or so had returned. Obviously not my day! /Björn ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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