Re: Jawsat/Opal? Obs

From: Ralph McConahy (rmcconahy@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Jan 27 2000 - 18:45:58 PST

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    Just observed two of the objects from last night's launch. The brighter of
    the two was about mag +5 to +5.5, visible 1x in very nice Mojave Desert
    skies. The dimmer object, which led the brighter one by 4.8 seconds, was
    about mag +8 to +8.5. Assuming the OCS has inflated, and using the time
    separation of the two, it seems that I must have observed these:
    
    OCS                                              806 x 750
    1 26063U 00004C   00027.45125247  .00000223  00000-0  10000-3 0    37
    2 26063 100.2324 224.0988 0039498 181.4516 178.8082 14.33994366    49
    ASUSAT-1                                         811 x 744
    1 26061U 00004A   00027.80011977  .00415087  00000-0  14623+0 0    93
    2 26061 100.2376 224.5097 0047238 175.3953 184.8240 14.34222799   103
    
    with 00-004A leading 00-004C by 4.8 seconds.
    
      Ralph McConahy
      34.8829N  117.0064W  670m
    
    
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