Hi all, Long time I've put something on this board but I'm still observing(but not reporting....) There is some doubt in my observations about Nanosail D. I 'think' I observed this object for the first time on april 25, steady and mag +2. On april 26 I tried again but I saw a quite different object, much fainter, mag +6 and irregular flashing. I was using the predictions from Heavens Above. Are those predictions based on recent elements ? Maybe I just saw some other objects or can Nanosail be so different in appearence ? Greetings, Tristan Cools Bruges, Belgium 2011/4/27, Ted Molczan <ssl3molcz@rogers.com>: > Bram Dorreman and Russell Eberst contributed observations used to produce > the following elements: > > NanoSail-D 565 X 617 km > 1 37361U 10062L 11116.87365084 .00102475 00000-0 10091-1 0 04 > 2 37361 71.9732 150.4966 0037237 297.8568 61.8830 14.91478468 07 > Arc 20110423.93-0426.88 WRMS resid 0.028 totl 0.026 xtrk > > Although based on only four points, spanning three days, the results are in > reasonable agreement with the ones provided > by the NanoSail project: > > http://nanosaild.engr.scu.edu/dashboard.htm > > 568 X 614 km > 1 90027U 0 11116.73946851 +.00110781 +00000-0 +10779-1 0 01604 > 2 90027 071.9704 150.7935 0033612 294.3537 065.3944 14.91486360014431 > > Ted Molczan > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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