Observations 25 Jan 2001

From: Greg Roberts (grr@iafrica.com)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 05:57:08 PST

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    Hi
    
    After a break caused by bad weather and injuring a non existant bicep muscle
    whilst working
    in my  "garden"  which made it rather painful to put my CoSaTrak system on
    its mount due to its
    high mass, here are some IOD observations for 25 Jan 2001 evening UT.
    
    
    19460 88 078A   0433 F 20010125205205320 27 25 0147140-500770 57 X+056 05
    19460 88 078A   0433 F 20010125205248960 27 25 0235871-374330 57 X+045 05
    19460 88 078A   0433 F 20010125205328940 27 25 0309506-234280 57 X+030 05
    25724 99 023A   0433 F 20010125214935940 27 25 0423560-034200 57  +057 05
    25724 99 023A   0433 F 20010125215059030 27 25 0507780-050606 57 S+055 05
    23728 95 066A   0433 P 20010125224621940 27 25 1456000-324740 57 V+065 05
    
    88078A ( USA 32) was running 30 seconds EARLY- lovely complex flash/glint
    pattern
    rather similar to EGP but more varied in magnitude.  The one observation of
    95066A, USA 116 was made at an elevation of 11 degrees and was on the limit
    of the
    CoSaTrak system due to bright city glare and other pollution. It appeared to
    be maybe
    varying but it was too faint to be sure.
    
    Several other satellites were observed and will be reported soon - they are
    NOSS 2F,
    NOSS 2D,NOSS 5A ( very faint) and NOSS 4H which put on a brilliant flare
    show. I
    missed the first half of the evening due to experimenting with a new lens -
    in the end the
    lens  proved to be a black hole as most of the light entering the large
    aperture did not
    reach the CCD so its useless for satellite tracking.
    
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