This first looked almost absurd - are they taking it down early/slowly because of fuel deficiency ? But it may tie in with an "observation" I made on June 28 when trying to see USA 224 (and 161 soon after). Because of my bright skies, it took me four minutes in 10*50 binocs to find the Dolphin and eta Pegasi ! Between them, where they were to pass, no reference stars were visible. I missed 224, but about two min BEFORE 161 was predicted I saw a bright sat leaving the FOV with eta Peg. The first reference star was eps Peg, which it passed about 0.6 deg above. 26934 01 044A 2420 2011070100315999 27 24 0834883+600805 28 S+042 000000 26934 01 044A 5919 B 20110628222653000 57 25 2142081+101067 29 Rough elset, adjusted for time only : USA 161 1 26934U 01044A 11182.00290117 .00013279 00000-0 19386-3 0 01 2 26934 97.9310 295.2937 0452953 93.8278 227.2965 14.86943781 01 /Björn 2011/7/1 Russell Eberst <eberst@blueyonder.co.uk> > > ... > > Note: 0104401 running about 12 minutes early on 5 day-old predicts.-- ---------------------------------------- Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m Phone: +46 (0)8 571 43 312 Mobile: +46 (0) 704 385 486 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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