Easily seen despite light blue sky with Sun at -9 I was alternating with 7*50 binoculars and without, around Polaris and below Arcturus. At 01:10:50 a "Meteor" 84072A almost fooled me, when followed at 01:11:42 by a Cosmos 75016H on the "same" track and "same" brightness, but that dimmed to invisibility. At 01:12:58 a bright (mag +1.5) pair, about .3 deg apart in pos angle 135 (from N=up) appeared below the star below eta Boo, only .6 sec before Ted's elset! I got four points, but star ID of #2 and #4 are not 100% certain, and the accuracy is low. #3 was in a group of four to five "stars", but three of them turned out to be a NOSS trio (NOSS 2-3) The strange thing is that the timing is progressively early on prediction, -0.6 -5.4 -10.4 -14.3 ! Had they been boosted into an excentric orbit? The two objects retained their relative positions, foreshortened slightly by distance, and slightly increasing the position angle. 71001 05 620A 5919 G 20050430011258020 17 25 1346421+141417 29 S+015 05 71001 05 620A 5919 G 20050430011400080 17 25 1536662+095742 28 S 71001 05 620A 5919 G 20050430011441090 17 25 1649682+041623 29 S 71001 05 620A 5919 G 20050430011553210 17 25 1818182-044451 29 S What these numbers mean: http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/IODprograms.htm -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----- Original Message ----- > > Here are elements for the 00:50 UTC lift-off: > > Lacrosse type 2 570 X 675 km > 1 71001U 05120.03790510 .00000506 00000-0 60000-4 0 06 > 2 71001 57.0000 131.4521 0075000 0.0000 33.7000 14.82000000 00 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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