On 25-02-08 15:51, "Ted Molczan" <ssl2molcz@rogers.com> wrote: > The only way to know whether or not Christian observed a fragment of USA 193, > is > for someone to recover the object he observed, in an orbit consistent with > that > of USA 193; therefore, I have fit rough search elements to Christian's > observation and a position near the approximate location of the intercept > nearly > 4 days earlier. > > 1 72001U 08055.74057874 .00465146 00000-0 39831-3 0 06 > 2 72001 58.8297 9.4354 0015000 90.0000 270.2828 16.12582003 08 > A big thank you to Ted for the TLEs and for nice private e-mails from several people on this list. I was out last night looking for debris again with no luck. Target star this time was 74 Orioni (SAO 95476) at mag 5.03, which the debris should pass over at about 17:54. Unfortunately a light cirrus layer drifted in half an hour before and I almost could not align the scope. After a succesful alignment I was barely able to see the star and as I said, no debris. Maybe outside of the field of view of 50.3 arcminutes, maybe too faint, or maybe not the correct identification/TLE at all. Tonight is forecast rain, but better weather later in the week. Will keep trying. Best regards, -- Christian Kjaernet Kongsberg, Norway COSPAR 5059: 59.6408N 9.6402E 176m ASL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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