Kevin Mangis wrote: > Just saw USA 193 zip across the sky and right through Orion's > belt. It was close to where Heavens-Above said it would be, > roughly 11 seconds or so late. Hopefully my rough positional > observation is helpful. I am pretty sure the time is > accurate to within 2 seconds -- I had to look down at my > watch, which is synchronized daily with the atomic clock. > After the observation I checked to make sure the > synchronization was correct. > > Location: 38.8729°N, 77.3071°W > > Time of observation (EST): 18 Feb 2008, 18:21:56 (+/- 2 > seconds) Time of observation (UTC): 18 Feb 2008, 23:21:56 > (+/- 2 seconds) > > Position: 2/3 of the way between Epsilon Orionis (Alnilam) > and Delta Orionis (Mintaka) -- closest to Mintaka. Thank you for your observation. Here it is after reduction, and in IOD format: 29651 06 057A 9999 G 20080218232156000 28 25 0533409-003600 48 S Object was 7 s late, and 0.31 deg above the track predicted by the elements I posted earlier. (Heavens-Above has the same set.) Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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