> >On Saturday Dec. 4 @ about 12:25UT (23:25 local), I saw a satellite rise >slowly from the south-west horizon, heading roughly to the east, passing >through the Small Magellanic Cloud, brightening to about mag +2 (or maybe >+1), heading in the direction of the zenith. > >My position was at Heathcote, Victoria, Australia (approx. 36.922 South; >144.705 East). > >I checked out SatSpy and it showed that the only sat which was in that >postion in the sky and heading in the direction at that time was Globalstar >8. The slow 'speed' of the satellite across the sky matched the >characteristics of the Globalstars. > I am very rusty on Southern Sky, so I had to search the Internet for "Small Magellanic Cloud" and received 0h 52m , -72 48' With SkyMap (Matson) and mccants.tle I find #21701 UARS 91-63B as THE satellite that passed through. Globalstar 8 was lower. UARS entered shadow soon after the Cloud. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2615 N, 18.6206 E, 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- -- SeeSat-L / Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at -- -- http://www2.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html