On 8/11/2002, Ted Molczan wrote: >>82041C has entered morning visibility in the N. Hemisphere. >>I have produced the following search elements... >> >>KH 9-17 ELINT 0.3 0.9 0.0 6.5 v >>1 70000U 02066.79004738 .00003875 00000-0 54519-3 0 02 >>2 70000 95.9590 83.3641 0003000 343.3469 16.6530 14.77431534 06 Thanks to Ted's search TLE, and some hints he offered along with ephemerides to compensate for earth rotation for +/-10 minute searches, I believe I found 82041C this morning. The sky was already starting to dawn, plus some distant forest fires somewhat smoked up the sky. So once I found it, it was difficult to find stars. Therefore, and unfortunately, I can only supply one point. Its flash pattern was more complicated than on-off, and I really didn't have the presence of mind to time the flashes, but 1-sec is a good guess for time between main flashes. IOD format: 13172 82 041C 8834 P 20020814122341900 17 35 2308731+096387 56 I+045 20 001000 Ralph McConahy COSPAR 8834 34.8829N 117.0064W 670m ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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