At 18:57 6/05/04, you wrote:
> It was moving very slowly
>(maybe .5 degree in a minute, or maybe .25 degree while the
>stars moved .25 degree to the west?). It did double-flashes
>every 2.84 seconds, about +5.5 magnitude. Unfortunately it
>disappeared after only a minute or so. The direction of
>travel was, I think, about 270 to 290. The following
>position is somewhat rough (of course); time is UTC:
>
>2004-05-06 02:11:10 RA 11:03 Dec -13.7 (2000)
>
Ed, Against latest alldat.tle I get only poor matches against your observation
1. USA 5 15271 an old GPS satellite no longer synchronous so I suppose its
non-operational
2. 19755 an auxillary motor of a glosnass launch.
However neither of them were heading towards west, but south.
latest elsets from OIG ( later than alldat.tle) are
NAVSTAR 10 (USA 5)
1 15271U 84097A 04127.10012235 .00000087 00000-0 00000+0 0 9491
2 15271 61.8791 169.2939 0108275 187.2879 172.6408 1.92618491140749
SL-12 R/B(AUX MOTOR)
1 19755U 89001G 04125.88006054 -.00000042 00000-0 77831-4 0 7746
2 19755 65.2771 347.4083 5545007 86.2081 332.2668 4.25331220237438
Tony Beresford
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