Jonathan, I filmed several ones (including the so-called Darksat) Saturday morning during a pass high in the sky, from Rambouillet France between 04:59 and 05:18 UTC. Here is the synthesis: http://www.astrophoto.fr/starlink_20200222_fb.jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/starlink_20200222_constellations_fb.jpg http://www.astrophoto.fr/starlink_20200222_magnitude_fb.jpg I estimate the magnitude at culmination at 2.5 for the brightest (including Darksat) and 4 to 4.5 for the dimmest. Thierry Legault At 23:02 24/02/2020, Jonathan McDowell via Seesat-l wrote: >DARKSAT (44932) has now reached its operational orbit. This would be a >great time to report visual magnitudes for it and other Starlink >satellites. As before, what I'm looking for is mainly catalog number, >visual magnitude, obsever location and time, plus ideally the rest of the >usual >SeeSat reporting data so we can estimate how illuminated it should have >been. > I'm also interested in negative reports from experienced observers >(satellite #such-and-such not seen at given time). And especially >interested in any cases where they are seen when *not* predicted to be in >sunlight (there have been anecdotal cases but I'm not sure I believe them) > Last summer's campaign was very successful - thanks to all the observers >esp. the prolific Jay Respler. Can we do it again? > > - Jonathan McDowell, Center for Astrophysics >_______________________________________________ >Seesat-l mailing list >http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l Thierry Legault www.astrophoto.fr _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Feb 24 2020 - 16:54:05 UTC
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