Mike McCants wrote: > I estimate they were about magnitude 5.5 at an elevation of 53 degrees > and an azimuth of 240 degrees. Predicted mag for a NOSS 3 was 5.6 +/- 1. > The two objects were very close together - about 0.3 degrees or so. Angular velocity was 0.33 deg/s at that point, so the temporal spacing was about 1 s, 1.95 days after launch. The four NOSS 3 pairs typically were at least ~10 s apart by that point in the mission. That and the ~20 km greater altitude, suggests a change in the deployment sequence, perhaps indicating the first of a block 2 of the 3rd generation, or even a fourth generation, or. Optical and radio characteristics will be important in the evaluation. Weather continues to be bad here, so probably no observations tonight. Ted Molczan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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