Hi Derek I checked out your picture of the event and the time etc in GUIDE. I cant find any error in what you did. It looks like you measured the correct end of the trail and on elements dated 9047.831 UT I get the satellite running about 2.7 seconds late on those predictions. For your time of 03h20m42.825s UT I measure the RA as 05h35m53.1s and Dec as -05d 12'34" - the RA is the same as yours but dec about 30 arc seconds out which is okay considering the image scale. I found it a little difficult to match the entire image to GUIDE - due to optical defects in the corrector lens I found the x and y scales to be different - also I had to rotate the field a bit but even then could not get images to line up across the entire field by fiddling image scale and field rotation. I eventually blew your image up 200% and just concentrated on trying to line up the stars around the end of the trail. Incidentally your stars are getting down to about mag +12 to +13. Lets see what Ted comes up with... Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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