Observations 15 Mar 2007: ---------------------------- Cosatrak 1 (Computerised satellite Tracking System). FLI M8300 CCD camera with 87mm focal length f/2.8 NIKON lens, field of view 12 x 9 degrees. Images measured manually. Site 0433 : Longitude 18.51294 deg East, Latitude 33.94058 deg S, Elevation 10 metres - situated in Pinelands (Cape Town), South Africa FOR CLASSIFIED.TLE: ---------------------------- 20641 90 050A 0433 G 20140130190727085 55 15 0909270-494604 39 20641 90 050A 0433 G 20140130190811732 55 15 0903293-424255 39 20641 90 050A 0433 G 20140130190849363 55 15 0900291-370926 39 23191 94 046A 0433 G 20140130202749111 55 15 1914169-732637 39 +055 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130191808163 55 15 1153032-400318 39 +055 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130191932291 55 15 1050086-265740 39 +045 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130191951674 55 15 1036202-225128 39 +040 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130192004576 55 15 1027210-195335 39 +040 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130205516564 55 15 0014159-555317 39 +040 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130205533472 55 15 0035493-523253 39 +040 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130205546152 55 15 0050362-494150 39 +035 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130205636897 55 15 0138087-352857 39 +025 05 28888 05 042A 0433 G 20140130205714942 55 15 0203295-230306 39 +060 00 36105 09 066B 0433 G 20140130202846041 55 15 1925388-735500 39 +055 05 36105 09 066B 0433 G 20140130202910985 55 15 2033079-763844 39 +055 05 36105 09 066B 0433 G 20140130203013005 55 15 0118395-713048 39 +045 05 37162 10 046A 0433 G 20140130210558583 55 15 0105490-491543 39 +045 05 37162 10 046A 0433 G 20140130210628177 55 15 0044074-481127 39 +045 05 37162 10 046A 0433 G 20140130210702002 55 15 0023124-465006 39 +050 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185513978 55 15 0209329+353415 39 +050 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185543515 55 15 0236005+342847 39 +045 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185608847 55 15 0304372+330628 39 +040 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185625755 55 15 0327432+314751 39 +035 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185651128 55 15 0409401+285311 39 +030 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185724936 55 15 0520233+221523 39 +030 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185807209 55 15 0702398+090535 39 +030 05 39025 12 071A 0433 G 20140130185910618 55 15 0908255-083527 39 +035 05 39462 13 072A 0433 G 20140130202846041 55 15 1918578-733706 39 +050 05 39462 13 072A 0433 G 20140130202858327 55 15 1948502-732950 39 +050 05 39462 13 072A 0433 G 20140130202910985 55 15 2019346-730318 39 +050 05 UNIDENTIFIED SATELLITE: ----------------------------- 99999 99 999A 0433 G 20140130195747464 55 15 0104581-315027 39 +070 05 99999 99 999A 0433 G 20140130195758200 55 15 0118567-283727 39 +070 05 99999 99 999A 0433 G 20140130195803200 55 15 0125175-270129 39 +070 05 STRAYS SEEN : ---------------- 01807 65 098C 0433 G 20140130195731424 55 15 0138291-293353 39 03598 68 110B 0433 G 20140130184923008 55 15 0221549+311958 39 +045 05 04420 70 047B 0433 G 20140130205446973 55 15 0042338-544122 39 +060 05 09013 76 067B 0433 G 20140130204351683 55 15 0018435-533646 39 +060 05 09509 76 108A 0433 G 20130130210140707 55 15 0033286-451438 39 +075 05 13718 82 116A 0433 G 20140130192821761 55 15 1233210-491235 39 +060 05 15822 85 047B 0433 G 20140130204723062 55 15 0018525-532026 39 +078 05 16494 86 005B 0433 G 20140130193141773 55 15 0857561-033443 39 +039 05 17177 86 094A 0433 G 20140130205153622 55 15 0040303-490536 39 +060 05 19038 88 029A 0433 G 20140130205503884 55 15 0031470-584852 39 +065 05 20261 89 080A 0433 G 20140130210153387 55 15 1023521-462727 39 +080 05 20527 90 023A 0433 G 20140130205153622 55 15 0033079-584701 39 +077 05 23411 94 078A 0433 G 20140130203557979 55 15 0010369-562605 39 +065 05 24794 97 020C 0433 G 20140130201908719 55 15 1404328-484753 39 +075 05 25876 99 041E 0433 G 20140130210140707 55 15 0042565-470426 39 +058 05 32263 07 048A 0433 G 20140130183613895 55 15 0527311-064949 39 +065 05 39386 13 064G 0433 G 20140130204210216 55 15 0010222-525844 39 +040 05 39390 13 064L 0433 G 20140130203843022 55 15 0007189-561927 39 +030 05 NOTES: -------------- (1) Prime purpose was to check on the KH satellites as activity expected. (2) USA 129 NOT seen on two good passes - possibly been de-orbited ???? (3) USA 245 NOT seen on one poor low elevation pass - so status uncertain - may not be able to resolve this as I am now close to the end of my summer observing window. (4) USA 186 still in its elliptical orbit - ie apogee not yet dropped to about 400km - Marco expects this to happen around Feb 06 - unfortunately this may then mean the end of my summer observing window as altitude too low to clear low buildings before shadow entry. (5) Unknown not found in my database - rough orbit i = 74.68 RA = 90.50 n = 15.048 alt 550km range 950 kms period 95.7m std mag +5 (6) ORS (Operational Responsive Space) - 29 cubsesats with one launch. Happened to be observing area where several objects were passing and saw two - Object G slow variable from about mag +8 to about magnitude 4.0 as it crossed field of view and Object L produced what could be two short flashes or glints very close to one another to about magnitude +3 - invisible before and after the event. (7) APEX seen by accident - did a short flare - invisible before and after. (8) Took longer than normal to do the above - yesterday was SO HOT that my "work" computer kept shutting itself down as the CPU cooling fins could not cope with the heat - today a bit cooler so my next job is to improve cooling of the PC. -- oops had to do it a now as it again got too hot and CPU refuses to run - added new heatsink compound between CPU and fins as well as adding a CPU fan.... lets see what happens now- at least no smoke so far!! Cheers Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sat Feb 01 2014 - 14:40:27 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Fri Mar 07 2014 - 23:11:58 UTC