Re: two naked sats near each other

From: Tom Wagner (sciteach@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Aug 07 2003 - 23:56:34 EDT

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    My son and I just saw (and videotaped) Envisat followed by ARIANE 5 R/B that
    helped to get Envisat up there. The rocket motor was about a magnitude
    brighter than Envisat when overhead but faded to about a magnitude less
    bright when low in the north. I used the "color slow shutter"on my Sony DV
    camera.
    
    Magnitudes overhead were about +4.5 and +3.5 I would guess. Both were faint
    in my night vision scope and 7 x 35mm binocs when they crossed the bowl of
    the little dipper. They still showed up on video however.
    
    Tom  Iowa  USA
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com>
    To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
    Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:34 AM
    Subject: two naked sats near each other
    
    
    > For my fellow north american satellite observer's
    >
    > Tonight the envisat satellite is predicted to pass across the night sky,
    being chased by the
    > rocket used to lauch it:)
    >
    > For a pass for my location, they will appear to be within 10 degrees of
    each other at 21:59 pm
    > (Aug 7 ) EDT.
    >
    > Look for passes between the times of around 2 and 3 UT (Aug 8 ).
    >
    > ENVISAT          6.0  2.0  0.0  4.0 d   50
    > 1 27386U 02009A   03219.23581742  .00000015  00000-0  21891-4 0   985
    > 2 27386  98.5510 285.3985 0001060  97.3492 262.7810 14.32248753 75037
    > ARIANE 5 R/B    10.0  2.5  0.0  3.5 d   35
    > 1 27387U 02009B   03219.09830449  .00000054  00000-0  33883-4 0  1631
    > 2 27387  98.4763 284.9615 0032969 152.6660 207.6267 14.35171652 75160
    >
    > I plan to watch, if the skies are clear.
    
    > Kevin
    
    
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