On August 4th, after returning at about local midnight from a busy shopping day, we stayed outside the house, as the sky was so beautiful. I was looking in the direction of Capricorn and I thought I saw an extra star. After a while it was not there any more so I decided that I was wrong. After another while I saw an extra star again, a little displaced with respect to my previous "observation". I could follow it for several minutes while it was moving up and left. By making a position/time combination I was able to identify this mag +4 object as the one mentioned in the subject of this e-mail. To be completely certain I predicted this satellite for the night after. I determined when it had about the same azimuth. And, yes, on the 5th, 1 hour and 23 minutes before the time of the day before I found that object at the predicted place. Its magnitude +3.8. So now I was sure it was this GLONASS member. The azimuth was about 180 degrees different from that of the Sun. And elevation was about the same as Sun's elevation but different in sign. Site 4160: 51.27931 N, 5.47683 E (WGS84), 35 m Bram Dorreman ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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