Today I had an unexpected clearing of our 99% cloud cover. I searched for USA 116 using my #70134 search elset, and at +9 minutes I saw an object within my 1.9 degree FOV (at 8 deg el, az 000). It crossed my FOV in 11 s, which is close to what should be expected. Unfortunately, in my haste, I had left my stopwatch and voice-recorder behind. I got three times by looking at my radio-controlled, illuminated wristwatch, but forgot the first time, and the star-split fraction of the second. For other reasons, I forgot the voice recorder and mishandled my stopwatch on the next pass, so there was no time recorded. But I did get three positions. No other object in satellite.tle, mccants.tle or classfd.tle matches the time and direction, and on the second pass there was a typical flash and severe dimming after the first obs. 70834 01 044A 5919 F 20040117161543000 28 25 1319827+383669 29 S 70834 01 044A 5919 F 20040117161744000 28 25 1459852+384860 29 S 70834 01 044A 5919 F 20040117161801000 28 25 1513890+380315 29 S 70834 01 044A 5919 F 20040117175220000 29 25 1449943+372928 28 S 70834 01 044A 5919 F 20040117175255000 29 25 1515946+371494 48 S 70834 01 044A 5919 F 20040117175327000 29 25 1539483+364049 19 S USA 161 search 907 x 398 1 70834U 01044A 04017.68000000 .00002000 00000-0 90000-4 0 27 2 70834 97.9260 133.7780 0361833 267.5892 199.7500 14.72725000 19 If I'm not mistaken, Tony should have a pass around 16:04 UTC 20040118, descending from 16 degrees, getting better. /Björn -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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