An earlier post, quoting George Lewis of JPL, stated: > ...With these assumptions, the brightest magnitudes that > were obtained were about +15 at slant ranges of around 15,000 km. > If we assume that a favorable spacecraft orientation would result > in a magnitude difference of +5 then these brightest values would > become +10. I attempted to view Stardust with a Meade ETX-90 telescope using Stardust's positions from the JPL Horizons web site. My magnitude limit was between +11.0 and +11.5. I searched from 0240 UT to 0550 UT (at which time clouds moved in). Negative sighting. Ralph McConahy 34.8829N 117.0064W 670m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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