I am reasonably confident of the positions, as estimated in 7*50 binoculars. For the UNID, only the last time is accurate, and should agree with its coordinates. The other times are transcribed from the digital voice recording. Also the first (stopwatch) time is accurate, and mentioned in the audio, but I'm not certain it refers to the first recorded position. It appears the object was too fast for a geo, but if it were lower, it would be in shadow ! 94787 03 790A 5919 G 20041013194546480 18 25 0112088-083277 55 S+073 03 94787 03 790A 5919 G 20041013194845000 29 25 0115348-083903 28 S 94787 03 790A 5919 G 20041013195210000 29 25 0122382-083109 67 S 94787 03 790A 5919 G 20041013195237480 18 25 0122982-083346 38 S What these numbers mean: http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/IODprograms.htm 20:01:15 03-60A RA 01:14 Dec. -7:50 Express AM-22 #28134 mag. +5.2 20:09:18 03-53A RA 01:05 Dec. -7:54 Yamal 201 #28134 mag +3.5 faded rapidly >On my first successful observation of flaring geosats, I saw three >in 7*50 binoculars, the first is an UNID, possibly "our" 03-790A, >seen for 11 minutes at magnitude +6.5, slowly fading, to the right >and below theta Ceti >Positions are probably OK, but one or both times are wrong. I must >listen to my tape tonight, and will probably get more positions also: >The object was 5 (or 10) min. early based on the following modified >Vec2TLE extrapolation of the 213 day old elset for 03790A: >1 94787U 03790A 04286.87870323 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 15 >2 94787 2.7703 32.7308 0003392 171.8283 188.1782 1.00264139 2158 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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