At 12:58 PM 17/04/2008, Tony Beresford wrote: >I have a binocular visible pass of this expensive piece of >junk at around 0935UT today. For me its an s-n evening pass >at ranges around 1900 km. A mag 6 object with a tumble period of around 60 seconds was observed moving in the correct direction and within a few seconds of the predicted time. The fading behaviour prevented me taking more than one fix as it faded below binocular visibility just before a close appulse outside a nice pair of stars. Moonlight contributed to the problem and i couldnt recover the object before it brightened again. My positional observation in IOD format ( explained http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html) 32708 08 011A 8597 F 20080417095058900 27 25 0722670-314600 48 I+060 05 Tony Beresford Cospar 8597 , -34.9638, 138.6333E 100m asl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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