Hi list, TiPS is rarely mentioned these days, but the excitement of watching it sure isn't gone, I hope. Observed it less than an hour ago on a near zenith pass and with a pretty nice phase angle. It reached around mag +6, and though the brightening morning sky and the moonlight didn't exactly help much, the tether was still, well, "noticable" with 8x56 binocs. Neither Ralph nor Norton produced any sort of glint. I had to use this slightly dated elset: 1 23937U 96029F 01255.98826573 0.00002600 00000-0 27418-2 0 06 2 23937 63.4214 138.1630 0176000 359.3920 0.6080 13.67973956 03 ...but even though I had no watch handy and hence couldn't time it (it _was_ a long night...), aside from a nearby chuchbell ringing a minute before the pass, it definitely wasn't off by more than around 10 seconds or so at best; at least that was my impression. That's the usual stable TiPS-orbit, I guess. This just as a reminder to other Europeans who might have upcoming passes within the next few days. CU! Markus (E8.7434, N51.7264, 113m, MEST) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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