At 20:46 22/02/04, John Locker wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm looking for a bit of help to identify an object caught on video last >night. >My intention was to image the Hotbirds at 13 east , but I was having some >difficulty locating them. >I did however lock onto the 16 east position and took a short AVI of what I >thought were two geos there. > >Then , from no where , clouds swept in , and my viewing was aborted. > >Only this morning , as I was about to delete the files , did I realise that >one of the geos was not a satellite at all. >You can see the AVI at : >http://mysite.freeserve.com/satcom_transits/object.gif > >2mb file I'm afraid , but it shows eleven frames in which the geo sat is mid >picture.To the left the other object . >As you can see from the file below , these were 9 second frames....the whole >animation covers a period of just over two minutes.(three of the frames >were dropped by the camera) > >... > >My best estimate for the position is ra: 8:46.8 de= -7:28 > >There are no asteroid reports at Spaceweather.com. >Notice also in the third frame , to the right , what might have been a/c nav >lights. >FOV approx 30 arc minutes across. Cant get a match with anything in latest alldat.tle John. It seems to me the motion shown only implies a mean motion of 1.03 to 1.04 revs/day, which seems a permissible mean motion for a retired comsat whose orbit has been lowered rather than raised as most seem to be. Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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