subject: a success-full telescopic observing night Just want to let you know that I managed to capture in one night with fortunately very good seeing 3 satellites which were for a longer time on my list of favorites to capture at 0.25''/p with the reflector. All 3 are in the catogory 500-600 km orbiting altitude. 1)Finally got Terra (25994 1999-068-A) during a favorable 80 pass. Only slightly faring, which was actually optimal, as otherwise detail would have been totally overexposed. First frame-inspections already show nice comparable difined shape. 2) ERBS,(15354 1984-108-B) as mentioned yesterday, deployed by the Challenger on STS-41G This looks to be a very small object but with defined obvious color as first frame-inspections suggest. 3)USA-161,(26934 2001-044-A) Keyhole sat. (captured during short flare!) .Probably a US military reconnaissance spacecraft member of the Keyhole constellation that provides images at 15cm resolution. Looks similar to the Hubble Space Telescope. Actually my first capture of a real KH-satellite, although I earlier had captures of some of the Lacrosses. When processed, I will present the results certainly here on the list. Ralf Vandebergh http://ralfvandebergh.startje.be/vieuw.php?qid=303316 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100523/5ad3dd9c/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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