Kevin Fetter wrote: > I was fooling around this morning, seeing if I could get a estimate of where the Lares > orbital plane would be located with respect to the twilight zone. From what I see, the > orbital plane will be close to the twilight zone, and so lares would pass by in a bright > sky. > > So will have wait a few days, for the viewing to improve. > > Now to wait for it to get into orbit, and see what the real result is. Here is a rough estimate I cobbled together from various sources, which I intend to be used only to assess visibility windows: 1 79050U 12044.45493056 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 79050 69.4990 238.7700 0002498 100.5250 75.6290 12.52000000 02 Based on the object's size (0.364 m dia.), I estimate standard visual magnitude of 10.6 +/- 1 (1000 km, 90 deg phase angle), which will make it difficult to spot in its 1450 km orbit. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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