> Brad, Alan Pickup has assigned a standard mag of 5.5 for this object > in his select listings. I assume he used observations of other > recent delta > second stages. Looking at the pass you tried near 6 am your time > this > morning via H-A, and the sun was only 10.8deg below horizon, > the range was 1600Km and I would think the phase angle was near 90. > So the brightness would have been about mag 6.5, not easy to see in > a fairly bright sky. Is the "phase angle" the same thing as the "sun-object-observer" angle? And, Can you tell me what formula you used to determine that the magnitude would be +6.5, assuming +5.5 as the standard magnitude? Thanks! ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! 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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