About -12 degrees centigrade while observing and very bright moon. Horizons look orange, probably reflection of our streetlights. PPAS-records, for format see http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat Using 7x50 binoculars yy-nnncc yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.s ooo sss.s s.s nnn ff.fff comments 11- 68 B 12-02-04 17:22:51.6 BD 46.5 0.0 2 23.2 PNAS-records: Using 7x50 binoculars yy-nnncc yy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss BD sss.s comments 06- 21 A 12-02-04 17:49:24 BD S; +2.8 0648+12 111!31; hindered by moonlight 07- 59 A 12-02-04 17:53:22 BD L; +4.3 0444+13 146!48 01- 56 F 12-02-04 17:59:43 BD S; +3.6 0745+26 90!34 Most of my PNAS-observations concern magnitude and variability checks. Especially when an object flares (code L) Therefore I report something like "reconstructed observation time and place" These are obtained from Guide 8 by looking at the observed time or place from voice-recorded comment. It is my experience that a combination of a good position observation and magnitude estimate is not always so easy. For classified objects I pay most attention to positions, for all other objects I try a PNAS-record. If comments start with L it concerns a flare. In some cases the azimuth of both satellite and sun are given. Several satellites have a short brightening when they have the same azimuth as the sun or are just opposite to the sun. In PNAS-observations the comments may give the position of the object roughly indicated in format hhmm+dd aaa!ee in which - hhmm is the right ascension - sign of declination as separator - dd is the declination - aaa is the azimuth (north = 0) - ee is the altitude - ! (exclamation mark is separator) Bram Dorreman Site 4160: 51.27931 N, 5.47683 E, 35 m (WGS84) _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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