> I was going to check for candidates for your UNIDs, but I ran into > an > apparent time zone situation. Omitting the Iridium flare, using the > > satellites you mentioned and the minutes (ignoring the hour), I got > them in the order you set forth at the right times for 01 UTC rather > 00. That is correct. For some reason, I must have thought that EST is only four hours ahead of UT, instead of five (in less than 24 hours, though, it will be four indeed with DST). I have been having a terrible cold for the last 48 hours. I feel mentally foggy often, and I feel like I'm dying of thirst, like I haven't drunk anything for about a day. > (Ralph McConahay's point about OCS would be correct for 00:35 but > not > for 01:35.) When I used Eastern Standard Time for the same > predictions, > I got them as being after 8:00 p.m. on Friday evening, March 31. Correct. > Here are the Quicksat predicted culmination times (UTC) I got for > the > ones you mentioned (Lacrosse 3, Cosmos 1184 Rk, OCS, and Seasat) > plus > a couple of others: > > 39.706 75.683 750. Jonathan W. 2000 4.5 12 F F F > T T > > *** 2000 Apr 1 Sat morning *** Times are AM UTC *** 014 959 > > H M S Tim Al Azi C Dir Mag Dys F Hgt Shd Rng EW Phs R A > Dec > > 25017 Lacrosse 3 97 64A c 2.5 > 1 23 3 .1 47 39 C 89 2.8 6 9 420 69 548 1.4 65 13 4 > 60.8 > > 11822 Cosmos 1184 Rk 80 44B 3.8 2.6 7.8 4.0 4.0 > 1 28 58 .0 65 261 C 267 3.8 2 5 372 76 407 1.9 87 7 8 > 31.5 > > 26062 OCS 99 04B 3.0 > 1 30 54 .0 47 288 C 268 4.2 2 4 492 285 640 1.1 108 523 > 39.1 > > 16908 EGP 86 61A 2.2 3.9 5.1 1.5 fl to 4 > 1 35 22 .0 47 348 C 90 3.8 2 4 934 730 1180 .7 96 613 > 78.1 > > 25861 Okean-O Rk 99 39B 1.5 Zenit > 1 37 11 .0 32 22 232 2.7 2 5 416 57 701 1.1 82 1611 > 70.5 > > 10967 SeaSat 1 78 64A 21.0 1.5 32 2.8 2.5 occ very > bright > 1 41 3 .0 51 33 247 3.0 2 5 479 54 593 1.3 69 1242 > 64.5 > > The only one that seems somewhat off in time is OCS, which should > have > been pretty far gone by 01:35. Okean-O Rk is a bright, rapid > flasher, > and EGP is a relatively easy binocular object, a slow-moving rapid > flasher (often referred to as being like a "disco ball"). According to my heavens-above predictions, OCS would reach about 10 degrees altitude at 0135:45. I saw the second UNID right at the end of the pass. I didn't try for Okean-O. Was the rocket up there? Heavens-above doesn't have any kind of rocket designation next to it. EGP was not to exceed magnitude +4.5 according to heavens-above. I never try for anything fainter, because I have M A S S I V E light pollution - it takes a while to tell if you have clear skies or solid clouds. And, I have enough bright satellites to keep me busy. > So I wonder if the actual UTC date and time for your observations > were > April 1 after 01:00 (after 8:00 p.m. Friday evening March 31 USA > time). It was April 1, UTC. Sorry, I forgot to put the date in. I knew I forgot something! > As you know, for others to ID objects, we need to know, if possible, > > your location, the date and time, and the altitude, azimuth, and > direction of the UNID. You didn't mention the azimuth for your two > UNIDs. And I had to check predictions for the previous and Do you mean a numerical figure? I could only give an estimate. I just print out all the predictions from heavens-above, and look outside. It only tells what compass direction in the sky it will be in. > following > nights to make sure of the date. (I was reading the hypermail > archive, > and on it the date that appears is when a message is posted to the > server, which in this case was 1:06 PM Pacific Standard Time on > March > 31. That made it seem like your obs. had to be Thursday evening > March > 30, but the satellite passes that night just did not match at all in > > order or times.) There must be an error with the server (or I sent the message through a wormhole). I sent it at about 09:30 PM local time (EST), on March 31. =============== Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com "If you come from a little bit of slime out of a pool, then what's so great about life?" --- Arizona Representative Karen Johnson, on the implications of biological evolution ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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