Jeff U. wrote: >Last night waited all night for unaided visual geosat flares. I hope you'll get to see more on other tries. It may be that they're just now getting best for your latitude. >Finally saw two at 0734UT and 0814UT at the same coordinates; >RA: 1 hr 17 min, DEC: -5.0.... Were those coordinates 2000 or 1950? Last night at BCRC (30.315N, 97.866W, 280m) I recorded the following ones as being visible with 8x42 binoculars. Fred also saw and Mike confirmed most of them with the scope: 2004 October 10 UTC (Saturday PM October 9 UTC -5:00) Time Cat # COSPAR_ Name ---- ----- ------- -------------- 1:44 26761 01-018A XM-1 2:01 24936 97-050A GE 3 2:05 26038 99-071A Galaxy 11 2:10 23764 96-002A PAS 3R 2:10 25585 98-075A PAS 6B 2:10 26608 00-072A PAS 1R 2:22 26608 00-072A PAS 1R *** again reached +3.0 magnitude 2:40 24315 96-054A GE 1 3:16 26624 00-076A Anik F1 3:28 Kevin's geosat (two +6 maxima, +9 minimum, over several minutes) 3:46 24713 97-002A GE 2 3:46 26624 00-076A Anik F1 3:52 26724 01-012A XM-2 Some more were visible only by Mike getting them in the scope. Also, various of the above were visible with binoculars at different positions along the Clarke Belt's declination. As always, there are two clusters -- the ones near shadow entry, and the ones about three hours (45 degrees) west of that right ascension. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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