Afternoon
I had a fair amount of favourable comment about my posting the item on the
Western Satellite Research network recently.As a result of a request from
Allen Thomson I have scanned the second report I have and possibly there may
be one or two other readers interested in getting a copy as well?
Details of the report are as follows:
North American Rockwell Space Division report SD70-55, dated 1 July 1970.
Subject: Optical Characteristics of Artificial Satellites
Authors: Gary A.McCue, James G.Williams and Joan M.Morford.
The main part of the document contains 39 pages. The Chapter headings are:
1. Introduction
.........................................................................Pag
e 1
2. Satellite Brightness Theory
................................................. Page 3
3. Statistical Properties of the Observational Data ..................Page
9
4. Observations versus theory
..................................................Page 25
5. Conclusion
...........................................................................P
age 38
References
...........................................................................P
age 39
Chapter 3 is the one probably of most interest to readers.
I have scanned the document at 300dpi and the resultant images are just over
a megabyte each in BMP format. On
compression with ZIP the entire document is then just over 2 Megabytes in
size. Due to limitations with my, and
possibly other peoples servers, I have split the file into 4 parts , so
should be okay for most, if not all systems.
Let me know if you would like a copy e-mailed to you. I will wait for about
a week for all replies and will then do a
bulk posting with one upload so that I dont run up too big a telephone
account!
In addition to the observers mentioned in my earlier WSRN report, the
following additional ones are mentioned in this
report:
Larry Howard (Van Nuys), D.Charles (Walnut Creek), C.Evans (China Lake),
R.Jenkins (Rochester),
A.Beresford ( Adelaide - anybody every heard of Tony :-))) ) , K.Wells and
R.Gliebe(San Jose), R.Emmons (Akron-Canton), A.Harris(Newberg),
J.Rouse(Madison), P.Russell(Wichita), L.Deming(Terre Haute), S.Sells
(Prairie Village) and F.Ball(San Antonio).
Finally this report contains no reports of invidual observations of
satellites.
Best wishes from a cloudy rain/wind swept Cape Town!
Greg
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Cospar Site 0443. Long 18.5129E,Lat 33.9405S
Near Cape Town, South Africa.
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