In a message dated 4/6/04 8:17:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Harro.Zimmer@t-online.de writes: > It would be interesting to see its optical behaviour. ------------------- I tracked Cosmos 2001 for about 8 minutes this evening with my 10 inch (250 mm) dob. Early in the pass it drifted in and out of visibility as it was at the limit of my visibility at 11.5 mag. After about 3 minutes it appeared to be steady at 10 to 10.5 mag. All times UTC 10 April 2004 03:44, 348az, 66el, 8600km range, 11.5mag 03:47, 353az, 70el, 7800km range, 10.5mag 03:52, 23az, 80el, 6580km range, 10.0mag COSMOS 2001 1 19796U 89011A 04098.79603760 -.00001157 +00000-0 +10000-3 0 06020 2 19796 066.6397 027.4175 6840808 213.3219 074.1041 02.00878698110953 Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ http://www.howardastro.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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