Hi Russell, A short notice before any precise treatment of my observations : at 19h12m-19h13m UT , I observed tonight visually and photographically both 2013-01 C and D near Gamma Pegasi, in good agreement with Calsky ephemeris - maybe as accurately as at one or two seconds. The 2013-01 ABCD satellites don't appear in Calsky database, but they showed up using the fonction "satellites within interval". I didn't catch objects A and B. 2013-01 D is nicely flashing on my photographs on a 0.43 sec period. Visually, using binoculars, object C appeared the first, constant at mag 5.5 and object D followed it at mag 6.5. I wasn't able to detect the flashing pattern visually in a poor sky not far from the Moon. Alain Figer 2.128° E ; 48.673° N ; 170m a.s.l. ======================================== Message du : 16/01/2013 11:09 De : "Russell Eberst " <eberst@blueyonder.co.uk> A : "Ted Molczan" <tedmolczan@rogers.com>, "Peter Wakelin" <peterwakelin@talktalk.net>, "Pierre NEIRINCK" <pierre-neirinck@wanadoo.fr>, "Mike McCants" <mmccants@prismnet.com>, "Greg Roberts" <grr@telkomsa.net>, "Seesat List" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>, "Bjoern Gimle" <bjorn.gimle@gmail.com> Copie à : Sujet : Identification The unknown at 181343.40 on January 15 has been identified as the first launch of 2013. Probably 13-01D, but all four objects would be very close. regards Russell _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130116/70ae2c2d/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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