5919 obs Apr 22

From: Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:35:30 +0200
In the morning of Apr 22 I tried again to catch USA 179 r, but it does not
appear to be visible in the 48 images I took in 64 min.
The inttles and the extrapolated SGP4 elsets for this object differ by >20
min/day, so an observation window one day is of little use to choose one a
few days later.
The estimated uncertainty of the old elset is more than one orbit, so a
full scan must be done, but my camera batteries (and I around 2 AM) are not
up to it.
I have so far identified #39287_#39462+16881_#39012_#28646_#26070+28376 in
9 images
The two classified objects are recently observed, so my 1s camera accuracy
is of little use.
UNIDs in 16 images, mainly because I haven't yet identified the star fields.
Two of these contain a bright object, close to the orbits of USA 161 and
IGS 8 DbE, but about 130 km higher, which I cannot find in Heavensat, IDsat
or SkyMap.

00000 12 612A   5919 E 20140422023641000 18 25 1224356+521941 55 S
00000 12 612A   5919 E 20140422023648000 38 25 1201370+543641 55 S
00000 12 612A   5919 E 20140422023715000 18 25 0924699+595807 55 S
00000 12 612A   5919 E 20140422023725000 18 25 0838636+590516 55 S


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