In a message dated 4/10/00 7:11:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, barnold@digiscape.com writes: > This morning while waiting for Mir to show up I saw two satellites > coming SW to NE. The time was about 5:20 am, and where I am is on > daylight savings time. Both were close, about 4 to 5 degrees apart. They > were almost overhead, maybe a little west of overhead at about 5:20 am. > My location is 30.48.10 -89.00.04. Both were very bright, about > Jupiter's brightness. > I used Satspy 3.0 and McCants elements from yesterday, but I really can > not tell what ones they were. I ran a search in Satellite Hunting, constrained to 5:20 - 5:30am Mag 3.5 for your location and turned up what looks like a perfect match. Cosmos 1697 rocket and Cosmos 1980 rocket would have been passing through Bootes just as you describe. Abbreviated Satellite Hunting output (the TLE's are from McCants 4/10/00)... Local Time ±mm:ss Satellite Name Sat.# Elev. Azimuth Mag 5:16:41 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1697 r 16182 23° 222° [SW] 4.4 5:20:09 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1697 r 16182 56° 293° [W] 3.2 5:24:01 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1697 r 16182 20° 004° [N] 4.6 Cosmos 1697 r 10.4 3.9 0.0 3.9 v 1 16182U 85097B 00097.89037085 +.00000728 +00000-0 +39749-3 0 08736 2 16182 070.9956 255.0177 0010164 277.7256 082.2749 14.15422568747245 Local Time ±mm:ss Satellite Name Sat.# Elev. Azimuth Mag 5:16:15 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1980 r 19650 23° 220° [SW] 4.6 5:19:42 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1980 r 19650 57° 293° [W] 3.4 5:23:32 AM [±00:01] Cosmos 1980 r 19650 20° 005° [N] 4.8 Cosmos 1980 r 10.4 3.9 0.0 3.9 v 1 19650U 88102B 00098.87888214 .00000800 00000-0 43688-3 0 8510 2 19650 70.9927 253.1955 0013236 7.2341 352.8971 14.15082647587428 _______________________________________ Regards, Stephen 28.37612N 81.35404W Orlando, FL stephmon@aol.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Satellite Hunting™ visible pass prediction shareware v2.0.2 is now available for download at http://stephen.fathom.org/sathunt.html xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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