Optical 02 Oct 2020

OPTICAL 02 October 2020
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Site 0435 Pinelands (Cape Town,South Africa)

18.5101 degrees east  33.9368 degrees south
altitude 25.5 metres

ZWO ASI 174MM cmos camera with telephoto lens set at about 80mm focal length
and aperture f/2.8.      Field of view 7.74 by 4.86 degrees, 2x binning
and image
scale 28.8 arcsec/pixel.

Timing provided by Dimension 4 and Network Time Synchronization (NTP) and
hopefully good to 0.1 seconds ( or better!).

Mostly 4.00 second long exposures used and hopefully camera gives 4.00
seconds
as time recorded in FITS file header as start of exposure time . In some
cases start
or end of trail not too well defined so mid trail estimated for position.

FITS images reduced in NOVA.ASTROMETRY.NET to provide plate solution and
SAO DS9 used to determine coordinates from trails produced during exposures.

ASICAP used to produce FITS files.  So far appears to be the best program
for
capturing as best control over how image appears.

FOR CLASSIFIED.TLE:
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26906 01 040B   4353 F 20201002175433541 17 15 2302021+240603 85 S+035 10
26906 01 040B   4353 F 20201002175454546 17 15 2308440+215344 85 S+035 10
26906 01 040B   4353 F 20201002175515590 17 15 2315418+193659 85 S+035 10
28095 03 054A   4353 F 20201002172056190 17 15 2232564+213601 85 I+046 10
28095 03 054A   4353 F 20201002172108180 17 15 2236395+201937 85 I+046 10
28095 03 054A   4353 F 20201002172122186 17 15 2241089+184627 85 I+046 10
28095 03 054A   4353 F 20201002172136810 17 15 2245408+171515 85 I+046 10
28097 03 054C   4353 F 20201002180511263 17 15 2303084+165859 85 S+035 10
28097 03 054C   4353 F 20201002180523840 17 15 2307366+152948 85 S+045 10
28097 03 054C   4353 F 20201002180534394 17 15 2311296+141112 85 S+045 10

Some strays:
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11636 79 101B   4353 F 20201002180145680 17 15 2251407+155928 85 S+052 10
45683 20 035AC  4353 F 20201002172921473 17 15 2212317+133508 85 S
44480 19 050B   4353 F 20201002173335093 17 15 2237071+130138 85 I+070 10
38993 12 062C   4353 F 20201002173507407 17 15 2249527+143102 85 I+075 10

Notes:
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12062C Ariane 5 rocket body range 14095km
19050B Falcon 9 rocket body range 10110km
20025AC is STARLINK 1399

About 20 other satellites observed and still to be identified but do not
think
any other classified objects. Will report later if anything interesting.

Cheers
Greg
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