It's been a long dark winter here with prolonged cloud cover and little chance of visual observations. After monitoring WGS 9 on radio for a number of weeks the skies cleared last night and there she was exactly as predicted by Doppler and radio positional observations. The following TLE was produced from the visual observations below: WGS 9 1 42075U 17016A 17106.28782418 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 01 2 42075 0.1945 260.0954 2063413 295.8864 351.4187 1.00270000 05 # 20170416.18-20170416.39, 128 measurements, 0.002 deg rms As with WGS 8, WGS 9 appears to be using an ion thruster to enter geostationary orbit. It is in a near synchronous orbit now as noted by the MM, best fit is actually a little lower but my guess is that I'm into the noise of the data. Doppler measurements indicate a slight change in orbital parameters (ecc) daily. WGS 9 was also noted to have passed through eclipse last night too. 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17 016A 8049 G 20170416091602555 27 25 1554273-085404 17 S 42075 17 016A 8049 G 20170416091620526 27 25 1554721-085381 17 S 42075 17 016A 8049 G 20170416092508516 27 25 1607649-084908 17 S 42075 17 016A 8049 G 20170416092526488 27 25 1608096-084900 17 S 42075 17 016A 8049 G 20170416092544545 27 25 1608541-084892 17 S 42075 17 016A 8049 G 20170416092602516 27 25 1608994-084873 17 S 42075 17 016A 8049 G 20170416092620488 27 25 1609429-084854 17 S Regards, Scott Tilley ROBERTS CREEK 1: 8049 ST 49.4348 -123.6685 40. Scott Tilley ROBERTS CREEK 2: 8048 ST 49.4175 -123.6420 1. Scott Tilley Keep tabs on COSPAR 8049 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/coastal8049?lang=en _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Apr 16 2017 - 18:07:06 UTC
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