I observed a pass of several JAWSAT launch pieces last night at 2:34UT Jan 28th. One object remained steady at about mag 4, which I (as others) assume is the OCS balloon. One object leading OCS by 2-to-3 seconds of time became faintly visible in 7x50 binos at about mag. 7 but disappeared and reappeared at irregular intervals. Depending on which elset is used on SKYMAP plots (see below), the faint leading sat could have been ASUSat-1 (old set) or OPAL (new set). I also spotted another sat TRAILING OCS by about 3 seconds. It was mostly invisible but would appear very faint (again at infrequent and random intervals) EXCEPT it flashed two times to near +1 or ZERO mag and was definitely RED-ORANGE in color. The "old" elset points to JAWSAT while the "new" elset points to ASUSat-1. Again this assumes the steady object was OCS. Others on this service my have a better idea of what these satellites could really be. I'll be watching tonight for sure! RICK BALDRIDGE Campbell, CA N37.272 W121.977 ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________ A SKYMAP plot of the observed pass utilizing the "old" elset below is viewable at: http://www.egroups.com/docvault/pastro/Jawsat_1.jpg ASUSAT-1 1 26061U 00004A 00027.45125255 .00000223 00000-0 10000-3 0 34 2 26061 100.2408 224.1154 0040149 187.3236 172.8606 14.34050847 50 OPAL 1 26062U 00004B 00027.45125258 .00000224 00000-0 10000-3 0 39 2 26062 100.2321 224.0966 0041263 186.8169 173.3846 14.34291359 48 OCS 1 26063U 00004C 00027.45125247 .00000223 00000-0 10000-3 0 37 2 26063 100.2324 224.0988 0039498 181.4516 178.8082 14.33994366 49 FALCONSAT 1 26064U 00004D 00027.45126231 .00000223 00000-0 10000-3 0 32 2 26064 100.2413 224.1134 0042732 183.9734 176.1284 14.33929065 46 JAWSAT 1 26065U 00004E 00027.31173131 .00000222 00000-0 10000-3 0 27 2 26065 100.2279 223.9315 0038422 191.3469 169.0263 14.33972179 24 ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ A SKYMAP plot of the observed pass utilizing the "new" elset below is viewable at: http://www.egroups.com/docvault/pastro/Jawsat_2.jpg ASUSat-1 newest 1 26061U 00004A 00028.21883363 .00043200 00000-0 15294-1 0 108 2 26061 100.2305 224.9936 0038456 186.3132 173.8180 14.33910797 162 OPAL newest 1 26062U 00004B 00028.21861052 .03898826 00000-0 12183+1 0 96 2 26062 100.2307 224.9988 0044220 188.3432 171.7015 14.35363534 159 OCS newest 1 26063U 00004C 00028.21875732 .00526668 00000-0 17649+0 0 53 2 26063 100.2308 224.9989 0039402 189.9400 170.3631 14.34481333 156 FalconSat newest 1 26064U 00004D 00028.07932027 -.08384133 00000-0 -34024+1 0 88 2 26064 100.2265 224.8327 0037848 190.4931 170.7771 14.33758427 139 JAWSAT newest 1 26065U 00004E 00028.21853384 .00126198 00000-0 43773-1 0 68 2 26065 100.2275 224.9937 0035868 185.5182 174.5598 14.34324663 155 MINOTAUR R/B new 1 26066U 00004F 00027.93919118 .00000686 00000-0 23982-3 0 60 2 26066 100.2352 224.6624 0035302 188.0864 172.0321 14.34857438 125 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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