Observations 01 Jan 2001

From: Greg Roberts (grr@iafrica.com)
Date: Tue Jan 02 2001 - 06:21:45 PST

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    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
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    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 !)
    
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