Hi All, Here's a more detailed report as promised. Using predictions generated from the search elsets #70013, #70061, #70062 and #70063 provided by Bjoern Gimle. I searched from 15:00 UT, low on the southern horizon. At around 15h 13m UT I observed an object slightly above and west of Pavo, climbing towards Octans and running parallel to a line between Nu & Beta Octantis. Track was roughly towards Lambda Oct. although the object faded before reaching it. The observation was made as the object passed (at nearly 90 deg.) through a pair of stars (mag 7.2 & 7.5) approx 2 deg. before Lambda Oct. The object started fading a second or so before this. In short the track looked very close to that expected for USA 116. Otherwise it was similar to observations of USA 129. My impression was that it was a little fast, perhaps because I was taken by surprise when it appeared. Bjoern emailed some plots from Skymap showing other tracks about that time. The only track that is close to what I saw (very close actually) is that of Cosmos 418 (05217). It was running in the opposite direction so I can rule it out. I haven't submitted in IOD form before - so if it's wrong let me know. 23728 95 066A 9127 F 20010118151302580 27 35 2111938-805274 16 S+070 05 Cheers Jim COSPAR site # 9127 Lat 27.591S Long 153.050E Alt 19 m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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