Morning The bit about satellite observing 50 years ago prompted me to dig into some old records and as far as I can determine I made my first satellite observation around 7.42pm South African Standard Time (17:42 UT) on the 10 October 1957 when the rocket of Sputnik 1 passed over my home- at that time Glencoe in Natal, South Africa. It was a bright easy naked eye object and at the time I was a few weeks short of my 18th birthday. Predictions were supplied by the then Union Astronomer, Dr.W.S.Finsen of the Union Observatory, ( which I joined as a professional astronomer in 1969 by which time it had been renamed the Republic Observatory) I made my first radio observations of Sputnik 1 around about the same date(-Oct 1957.) Even with fantastic advances in medicine etc I am reasonably confident I will not be around to celebrate my 100th year of observing satellites :-)) Cheers Greg. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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