EQUIPMENT- Orion ST80 with Mogg 0.6 FR and a Mintron integrating camera. ST80 is piggybacked on a 12" LX200 which does the slewing and tracking. Focal Reducer is at max distance from detector and still capable of focus. FOV - 1.98 x 1.48 Degrees Equipment Notes - Luminance only is recorded to video. For CLASSIFIED 36514 10 015A 8739 G 20100823124151739 26 25 2208113+330863 37 --------------------- 2010 Aug 23 12:41:51.739 UTC 10015A 36514 SGP4 Star A: 22:09:13.6341 +33:10:20.410 (2000.0) Mag 5.69 Star B: 22:04:34.5196 +32:56:30.284 (2000.0) Mag 6.488 Star C: 22:07:45.6238 +33:24:56.528 (2000.0) Mag 8.477 Length AB = 13.3750 Length AS = 3.1250 Length BS = 10.2500 Length CS = 3.7500 Object: 22:08:06.7580 +33:08:37.574 (2000.0) +/- 0.005 deg (default) Obs - Pred: 0.050 deg X-track; 0.253 s early, relative 1.11 day old elset: 1 36514U 10015A 10234.41566788 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 36514 39.9672 330.7942 0012138 352.1021 7.8973 15.43350785 09 36514 10 015A 8739 G 20100823124151739 26 25 2208113+330863 37 --------------------- NOTES- This is measured to the 1/8 inch with a 24" machinists rule, off of a 27" TV so the measurement is possibly limiting, but the timing is +/- 0.008s ALSO.. Something crossed the face of Jupiter in my 8x50 finder scope at 12h 44m 13s. It *APPEARED* to move North from a 7 O'clock to 2 O'clock in the viewfinder, but the viewfinder is on an Equatorially mounted scope and, I think, inverted and backwards, which is far too much at 6 AM.. Derek C Breit BREIT IDEAS Obs - Morgan Hill, CA - COSPAR 8739 E. Longitude -121 42 10.0, Latitude 37 6 47.8, Alt. 282m; _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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