Daniel, I enjoyed your observation report. I would loved to have seen it myself, but am very pleased to have your excellent description. Based on your timed observation, I have manually adjusted the RAAN and mean anomaly of my MECO2 search elements for the payloads: 1 70999U 05034.37193287 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 09 2 70999 63.4167 162.0800 0132437 179.7272 103.5500 13.39694040 08 This also agrees very well with your second un-timed position. The orbital plane is roughly 7 deg east of my estimate. Prediction time uncertainty after 24 h is about 3 min; more likely to be early than late. I believe I spotted the Centaur through clouds at 11:29 UTC, slowly rotating. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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