Hi all, Progress M1-3 has been launched today at 18:27 UT toward an ISS docking scheduled for the 9th at 20:14 UT. No TLE yet from OIG. Yesterday, we had at last some clear skies and I did some sat observation with a group of amateur astronomer. I was with my 6 year old son and it was quite cold so we stayed only for a couple of hours. Here is the only positional obs I made : NOSS 2-1 C : 20691 90 050C 1748 E 20000806022730200 37 25 0232500+891700 28 S+050 07 Note that site 1748 is not an official no. It's because I was not home. Coordinates are 45.899 N, 72.433 W, 87 m. This NOSS trio was visible to the naked eye. Satellite E was easiest to see at mag +4 while the other two were difficult at mag +5. At last I saw TiPS after 2 years trying. I was able to show it to 4 other observers. The tether was easy to spot with my 20x80, its brightness was estimated at mag +7. The lower mass flared often to reach mag +6. I noticed some sparkling effect on this mass. The upper one was almost steady and difficult to distinguish from the 4 km long tether. It was a very interesting obs. TiPS is USSC cat. no. 23937 and int. ID 1996-029F. One question : When making positional obs for this one, do we use the center of the tether as a reference or one of the two masses ? Iridium 65 flared as predicted at mag -1 at around 03:29:30 UT. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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