I am sad to report that I failed twice to confirm my observation. Saturday at Malma the sky was excellent at the first pass, but on the second pass it was hazy, and the scope dewed up. Monday I used the club's 12" at 50x in town, but the sky background made the mag limit +10 at most, and furthermore, despite good alignment I didn't recognize the stars at the GOTO position, spent some time searching around it, and may have missed it for either of these reasons. My search orbit is sufficiently close to the one below to rule out that as a failure cause. /Björn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted Molczan" ... I overlooked Björn Gimle's recent recovery after nearly 2 years, of one of the small ELINT payloads that piggy-backed into orbit on a KH-9: http://satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2009/0205.html Mike McCants produced the following elements. Additional observations are required to firm up the orbit; the object typically is faint, around mag 9-10. KH 9-18 ELINT 1283 X 1285 km 1 14139U 83060C 09108.87382061 .00000009 00000-0 32712-4 0 09 2 14139 96.6558 212.7533 0001784 147.4035 212.5964 12.93743139 07 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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