Steve Newcomb just posted, "Saw twenty some new for me sats." Have any of you ever tried to observe a record number of satellites with or w/o optical aid (binocs or telescopes) in one evening, like from sunset to 3 hours past or from sunset to sunrise or whatever? I am relating this to a Messier object marathon done by some astronomy buffs. I would imagine that having two people, one looking at the charts and a clock and calling out commands and jotting down records would help a lot. A tape recorder might help too. Once, before a Starshine pass, I taped information regarding where a satellite was supposed to be in relation to various constellations as it moved through the sky. Then at a certain moment, when my watch alarm went off, I started the tape player. As the seconds went by, I heard my voice saying things like, "It should be in Ursa Major right now. Now it's in Cassiopeia" and so on. I figured that was the only way I would positively identify the few flashes produced by Starshine. As it turned out, there were so many flashing airplanes in my Midwestern sky, that even with the taped descriptions about where to look and when, I was heavily distracted and did not positively identify any flashes. The general idea worked well though. Clear skies, Tom Iowa USA ..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Newcomb" <snewcomb@mail2.gcnet.net> To: "SeeSat" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:00 PM Subject: DMSP F14 > Saw twenty some new for me sats... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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