Tonight at site 5918 I had a good JawSat evening pass 60 deg. E, good weather (second time for Jawsat) and brought my binoculars into town. Again, I didn't see the Minotaur. A steady object, probably OCS, passed 5h 59.5m +37d 16' at 18:05:59.1 UT, 43 seconds later than Mike's elset. I didn't see any other object within +-3 min. I was using 7*50 all the time, so the chance of seeing a flash was minimal. I made a negative discovery at my dark site (5919). The clouds disappeared much too late for ETS-6 observation, but since I saw many more stars than in previous years, and almost many as I ever saw at 5919, I decided to test my visual limits. I picked only a few stars at about 60 deg. elevation, and the result was +5.0 at one-power, +8.6 at in 7*50, using averted vision after three minutes in the dark. I thought I would see fainter stars. Today, Swedish TV news showed a video taken this afternoon (?) of a bright meteor (or satellite) in daylight, shot by a non- professional SW(?) of Stckholm. Very few facts were given, and I couldn't quite tell if any zoom was used, but the view of tree branches, the slow motion of the object, the steadiness of the image and the short trail make me believe the angle was near normal. I think about 10 s were shown, and it may have moved around 20 degrees in that time! The tail was also shown enlarged and was only 5-10 pixels long. A professional astro- nomer made the comment that it probably was a high meteor leaving the Earth and moving in direction away from the photographer. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2615 N, 18.6206 E, 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- -- SeeSat-L / Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at -- -- http://www2.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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