I bet he used his skymap program. You should download it and buy it like I have, It is well worth it. It is very accurate program, and I use it all the time. You can get it from http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/programs/index.html As for satellite Mag's they are predicted values. So A sat can appear brighter or fainter than what the program say's. The more observations you make of the sat, the better the prediction of the sat's brightness will be. Different programs use different ways of calculating a sat brightness, so you will get diferent answers to the brightness og magnitude value. Welcome to the world of satellite watchers Kevin Fetter --- Alexander M <alexoid@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hallo Robert, > > Thank you for your information and for your correction! I took obviosly the > wrong star from the whole sky chart of heavens-above. Pretty typical > beginner mistake. I only remembered it was the brightest star in a big area > of the sky, I didn't realised that sirius the brightest of all was there, > that is not to excuse. > > I was a bit confused that heavens-above didn't show this object in the daily > predictions, although it was that bright. > > I would like to get the gif image of the two track against the stars. Thank > you very much! > From what source did you get the information that it was Cosmos 756 R/B? > What program do you use to create the gif file? > Where are the so precise times from? > > Heavens-above says that the space trah cosmos 756 rocket stage had this year > it's 25th anniversary of flying around the earth - and so lived longer that > the satellite it carried up that already dacayed 8 years ago. > > Thank you for you email! > Alexander > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Alexander Marschand > alexoid@hotmail.com > Dunedin, New Zealand > 45.8670S 170.5000E 20m NZDT (UTC+13:00) > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ===== http://ca.geocities.com/kfetter 44.6062N -75.6910 W __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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