Sat's I saw last night ( Apr 9 in terms of Universal Time ) Low earth orbit sat's with just the eye. Cosmos 1378 r and Cosmos 1400 r as they were seperated by 30 degrees. Both were so easy to see. At 1:17 UT Cosmos 1378 r 7.4 2.4 0.0 5.5 v 1 13272U 82059B 04099.20622088 .00000300 00000-0 34124-4 0 7415 2 13272 82.5109 337.6607 0019682 153.8470 206.3743 14.82705091177634 Cosmos 1400 r 2.8 2.6 0.0 5.1 v 1 13403U 82079B 04100.76196676 .00001350 00000-0 11136-3 0 4191 2 13403 81.1745 336.4353 0041019 172.9476 187.2329 14.97750033174257 At 1:24 UT Cosmos 1315 r 2.8 2.6 0.0 5.1 v 1 12904U 81103B 04099.56294191 .00001307 00000-0 11004-3 0 2968 2 12904 81.1810 332.7213 0032571 315.6352 44.2259 14.97225458770558 Plus others which I don't remember. Geo Sat's seen in my 70 mm refractor. 2:32 UT PAS 3R 1 23764U 96002A 04098.03692016 -.00000267 00000-0 00000+0 0 9734 2 23764 0.0031 192.5904 0002485 184.2936 149.0884 1.00271236 30166 PAS 6B 1 25585U 98075A 04098.12034587 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 7560 2 25585 0.0120 151.8847 0002457 217.6443 186.4195 1.00266509 19473 2:39 UT A boeing HS702 series satellite. PAS 1R 1 26608U 00072A 04098.03671955 -.00000272 00000-0 10000-3 0 5293 2 26608 0.0130 102.3337 0001609 180.6156 240.9143 1.00270053 12475 I like the boeing HS702 series, as they are easy to see. Kevin ===== COSPAR Site #1775 Long 75.6910 W, Lat 44.6062 N, altitude 100 metres __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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