Obs 11 and 12 December
Mir16609@aol.com
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 22:22:12 EST
Hello Everyone.
Globalstar 33 r1 (25911, 99049E) made bright (+2.0 to 2.5 mag) both evenings.
As Leo Barhorst last week it is a nice flasher but I have a difficult time
recording fluctuations between +2 and +2.5. There was a second pass this
evening low in the west where it was flashing (5.5->inv) around LB's reported
4 second period.
WIRE (25646) was visible for about a minute at 1x (~+3.5-4.0) 23:29 UTC 11
Dec. (75az, 62el).
Iridium 17 flared to a -3 mag (-2 predicted) at 23:15:07 11 Dec.
Iridium 20 looked more like EGP during a pass at 23:32 UTC 11 Dec. Lots of
little flashes. There was a series of 1x flashes centered at 22:57:25.5 UTC
12 Dec.
After many failed attempts with binos and a few with my 6" Dob I was finally
able to observe Telstar 1 (00340) this evening in the 6" Dob. It passed just
below eta-Psc at 00:39:52 UTC 13 Dec.
USA 147
1 25991U 99067A 99346.92179388 .00021698 00000-0 11311-1 0 57
2 25991 98.8983 40.0132 0009563 331.1345 28.9278 14.14454919 26
USA 147
1 25991U 99067A 99346.85105630 .00000147 00000-0 10000-3 0 38
2 25991 98.8966 39.9423 0009576 330.8662 29.1976 14.14442524 15
USA 147
1 25991U 99067A 99346.78031404 -.00000045 00000-0 00000+0 0 18
2 25991 98.8975 39.8677 0005612 333.8133 26.2786 14.14426739 04
The good news is regularly updated elsets for a DMSP. The bad news (for me)
is that the first visible pass won't be until February. Darn
sun-synchronous orbits.
Cheers
Don Gardner 39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL
Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
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