Hi All Herewith results from evening of 01 Jan 2001 These observations were made using my CoSaTrak system whilst scanning a lost satellite orbital plane. No effort was made to track the satellites so report is based on what was seen in the time it took to traverse the 10 degree field of view of the CCD camera as seen on a video monitor. After I finished tracking the orbit plane I set up on random pretty areas of sky. Seems as if it was a night for meteors - captured 4 on video by accident. G.Roberts, GR, Lat = -33.9405, Long = +18.5129, Alt = 10 m Cospar 0433 79- 99B 01-01-01 18:37:20 GR +3.4 steady 85- 06B 01-01-01 18:43:32 GR +4.8 steady 87- 18A 01-01-01 18:52:35 GR +5.3 to inv-irreg 89- 97B 01-01-01 19:02:25 GR +4.0 steady 83- 37B 01-01-01 19:18:50 GR +6.4 steady 99- 41E 01-01-01 19:33:08 GR +2.4 steady 69- 91B 01-01-01 19:48:01 GR +4.0 steady? 81- 75B 01-01-01 19:51:13 GR +5.5 variable ? 97- 82B 01-01-01 20:24:11 GR +3.0/inv,tumbling,irreg 99- 37C 01-01-01 20:25:15 GR +6.4 steady 97- 82C 01-01-01 20:28:53 GR +6.5 variable? 3790 kms 82- 72A 01-01-01 20:29:32 GR +4.7 steady 72- 76C 01-01-01 20:30:30 GR +6.6 steady 65- 16K 01-01-01 20:34:40 GR +6.1 - visible few sec 96- 72A 01-01-01 20:43:06 GR +5.9 variable 96- 72A 01-01-01 20:45:10 GR +5.0 steady 96- 46C 01-01-01 20:45:13 GR +4.8 steady sky very poor - lot of cirrus and moonlight- faintest star visible +6.7 or so Observations of USA129 in usual IOD format: 24680 96 072A 0433 F 20010101204306060 37 25 1304620-720730 17 I+059 03 24680 96 072A 0433 F 20010101204324180 37 25 1231586-733440 17 I+057 03 24680 96 072A 0433 F 20010101204509850 37 25 0646033-614930 17 S+050 03 24680 96 072A 0433 F 20010101204518880 37 25 0627542-575640 17 S+050 03 poor night - possibly larger positional errors than before as a result of of using the 10 deg field camera instead of the 5 degree camera Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------- COSPAR #0433: Long 18.51294E,Lat 33.94058S,alt 10 metres Retired astronomer,non active radio amateur (ZS1BI) Computer junkie, visual/radio satellite tracker.Lazy bum Dont know what CoSaTrak is ? - then visit http://canopus.saao.ac.za/~wpk/CoSaTrak/cosatrak.html (note - more often than not its offline over week-ends- no sysop !) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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