In a message dated 4/21/2004 2:48:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Michael Waterman" <mike.waterman@web-hq.com> writes: >Update on #20168 = 89062A = TV-sat 2 > >This was discovered 2004 March 23, but is moving slowly >westwards, and is now rather low in the sky from Europe. > >It is becoming visible from eastern America, and I am hoping >that some American obervers can see it. With more observations >I hope to find its spin axis. It's well positioned now in the SE sky at my location but the skies will not likely clear until the weekend. Superbird A is at 27 deg East longitude now and should be visible for most of Europe. Superbird A 1 20040U 89041A 04109.45835433 .00000095 00000-0 10000-3 0 4765 2 20040 9.4135 45.2739 0001928 157.8489 202.0852 0.99745453 53724 -- 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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