Daniel Magoon wrote: > Tonight I observed what appeared to be Cosmos > 1943(SPACECOM:19120). However its path didn't follow exactly > the Heavens Above path. I observed at 23:43 UTC an > object(Cosmos 1943) that arrived at the time Heavens Above > predicted. It passed to the west of omnicron Persei. > According to Heavens Above it should have passed between > omnicron Persei and zeta Persei. The object I observed was > about magnitude 4 and was of constant brightness. Did anyone > else observe this. According to your sig, you are at 42.0780 N, 70.6500 W, in which case Heavens Above predicts passage well to the west of omicron Persei: http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetails.asp?Size=1600&Lat=42.0780&Lng=-70.65&TZ =EST&Loc=Marshfield&SatID=19120&Date=39116.9890868173&FOV=60&ORA=57.537140915176 &ODEC=41.6973635155653 Were you at different coordinates? Did you enter your coordinates correctly? Since this was near over-head pass, an error in your coordinates of a few tenths of a degree might account for the discrepancy that you reported. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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