FWIW. I was at the Ney Museum site: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Conditions weren't very good (no clouds, but not very clear, lots of light pollution including the moonlight), but I was scanning the -5 declination (3 hours early area) just in case a geosat might be bright enough even at this late date. A fairly rapid-moving west-to-east one appeared in the field of view, and I tracked it for a number of seconds until it apparently went into eclipse. I'm not getting a match with Findsat, even allowing a lot of possible error. Here's the best position, using UTC on October 20 and 2000 coordinates: 2:09:48.2, RA 22:31, Dec -6.5 Before that, RA/Dec not quite as precise (more imprecise?): 2:09:25.3, RA 22:17, Dec -7.5 A few seconds before that it went between two stars which put it at about RA 22:10, Dec -7.8. Awfully short arc. It wasn't very bright, maybe +5.5. 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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