On Aug. 6, Steve LaLumondiere posted: >Just came in from watching the same satellite this evening. With my focus >devoted to a single object tonight, I saw the first flash at 04:07 and >watched it flash until 04:19 UTC. This was a very difficult object for >16x70s, and I missed a lot of flashes near the beginning and end of >this episode. The flash period was almost exactly 2.50 seconds. Last night Ed and I looked for a DSP in the same place that USA 39 normally occupied for many years. I was able to find it about 4:00 UT and I tracked it for over 30 minutes in my 8 inch telescope. Some flashes were visible in my 12x80 telescope and some flashes were seen by Ed in his binoculars in spite of a first quarter moon in that part of the sky. An extrapolated orbit from last December with a mean motion of 1.0027 was a very good match for Steve's observations and my observations: USA 39 (DSP) 1 20066U 89046A 05224.64723184 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 02 2 20066 8.6740 49.1293 0010000 308.5843 51.4227 1.00270000 02 Mike McCants Austin, TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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