Rick Baldridge wrote: >During the observation periods, the satellite was for the most part brighter >than DBS-2 and DBS-3, at approximately magnitude 8, decreasing to 10 over >the course of an hour -- generally steady magnitude -- no flares or >flickering noted. That's pretty bright, but this is the season for "flaring geosyncs". >Some approximate positions made from 37.272N 121.977W Alt 73M Campbell >California are as follows: I have fit Rick's positions with the following elset: Unknown 010313 1 90009U 01572A 01072.66500009 0.00000000 00000-0 +00000+0 0 01 2 90009 3.9100 308.5650 0001000 359.9991 0.0009 1.00264024 04 The original nominal node for the Milstar 4 Centaur was 301, but it was late launching, so a lower value would be expected. The nominal node for payload insertion was 345, but that seems like an unexplained increase of 44 degrees. So if the original node was 30 degrees lower to give a value of 271 and the payload was then to be 44 degrees higher, that would be 315. Seems pretty close. Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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