In a message dated 2/14/00 3:57:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, n5yyx@etsc.net writes: > This morning(feb14,00)at 05:39 or so, just as I had found and raised my > 7X50's to Iridium 59, > I saw anouther sat? pass VERY closely by Iri 59. It was not as bright > and heading north, with Iri 59 heading south. > After the pass of Iri 59, I looked for the other object and found it had > > grown brighter and was heading NNE(very little east), and about 75 > degrees up in the eastern sky. > > Seeing as how my new version of LogSat is still not working...., can > anyone help me out on what this might have been?? Cosmos 975 looks like a good match. Satellite Hunting's star plot shows them passing within a few degrees of each other, between Ophiuchus and Libra right around the time you mention. I'd offer to forward you a .bmp of the path, but since you appear to be in need of a software solution, I invite you to download Satellite Hunting and generate the plot yourself. Abbreviated Satellite Hunting prediction output... Prediction Date: 2000 Feb 14 [Mon]. Local Time ±mm:ss Satellite Name Sat.# Elev. Azimuth Mag 5:37:50 AM [±00:00] Cosmos 975 10561 20° 177° [S] 5.0 5:40:11 AM [±00:00] Cosmos 975 10561 69° 095° [E] 3.2 5:42:33 AM [±00:00] Cosmos 975 10561 20° 016° [N] 5.0 Local Time ±mm:ss Satellite Name Sat.# Elev. Azimuth Mag 5:32:44 AM [±00:00] Iridium 59 25275 20° 002° [N] 6.5 5:36:27 AM [±00:00] Iridium 59 25275 81° 093° [E] 4.8 5:40:06 AM [±00:00] Iridium 59 25275 20° 175° [S] 6.5 Regards, Stephen stephmon@aol.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x Satellite Hunting™ visible pass x x prediction shareware v2.0.2 x x is available for download at x x http://stephen.fathom.org/sathunt.html x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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