Bright moon here tonight made finding the geosats very difficult.The Astra group 19 east , in the south eastern sky was particularly hard to find , however of the seven sats 1B stood out like a beacon. I would estimate this is now mag 9-10 , and still out of position. Some weeks ago all the programming on 1B was moved to the other birds in the group. This , together with the growing brightness and the fact that it is well out of position seems to suggest the spacecraft has suffered some sort of problem. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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