In my experience these small Kosmos payloads are faint, mostly invisible in 7 x 50's but sometimes flashing to mag. 7 or 6. Thus I expect one is very lucky when he or she sees two objects simultaneously. But you never know. Bram Dorreman, COSPAR 4160 (Achel 1): 51° 16' 45.5" N (51.2793 N), 5° 28' 36.6" E (5.4768 E) -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Fetter <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Date: vrijdag 2 januari 2004 10:30 Subject: cosmos 623 near cosmos 1057 for north america >While fooling around, I noticed there's a chance to catch two cosmos satellite somewhat near each >other:) I like to try and see satellites close together. I have seen noss a few times > >COSMOS 623 >1 06991U 73104G 04002.16708760 .00000000 00000-0 10000-3 0 2213 >2 06991 74.0270 238.1153 0062635 327.8546 31.8696 12.56849493378302 >COSMOS 1057 >1 11134U 78109G 03365.20906306 -.00000003 00000-0 89420-4 0 8459 >2 11134 74.0146 239.9126 0021499 6.7586 353.3745 12.42037076136803 > >When they reach a height of 42 degree above the horizon at around 0:46 UT Jan 11 ), they are >predicted to be seperated by approx 1.1 degrees. > >So take a look at a pass of them between 0 to 1 UT on Jan 11, and see what it will appear to you. > >These won't be seen naked eye as far as I can tell, so get out the binoculars/scope. Not how sure >they bright they appear. Will have to check the ppas database for any observations on them. >Won't be as nice as seeing two naked eye satellites together like last aug, when envisat and it's >rocket were seperated by 10 degrees as seen from my location. > >Just thought I let you know. > >Kevin > >===== >COSPAR Site #1775 Long 75.6910 W, Lat 44.6062 N, altitude 100 metres > > > > >__________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 >http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' >in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org >List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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