observed secret sync sat

Jay Respler (jrespler@injersey.com)
Mon, 19 Feb 1996 23:57:22 -0500

Thanks to Rainer, I was able to find a secret sync sat.

Has anyone else been tracking them?

 *** 1996 Feb 18/19   Sun evening/Mon morning  *** Times are est
 40.283  74.233  129.      JAY RESPLER           1950 14.8  8

NCAT 99331 GEO331     MAG 3.5 ELAP DY 29 M2    0
HRS MIN  ALT AZI  MAG    HGT    R  A    DEC  RANGE
 08   5   25 121 11.9  21950   9 22.9  -5.0  23989  Predicted
 08  15   25 121 11.9  21941   9 33.2  -5.0  23985  Predicted

  8:15:26         9.2          9 32.3  -4.98        Observed


Has anyone come up with more info as to what this may be?

More of these should be easy to find by astrophotographers.

JRespler@InJersey.com
Jay.Respler@bytewise.org
Freehold, New Jersey