As (I think) I reported before, my new mail provider does not give me a choice of text-only messages, and my OE client refuses to send anything, but receives OK. Here is what I sent at 17:25 UTC: I stitched the three images (using just one or two stars). In the third image ("12:45:40 UTC") it meets 81-43 B which passed HP112031 at 12:45:51 UTC https://sites.google.com/site/starrymdnytt/dokument-och-l%C3%A4nkar/IMG_2846_Yarovoye_20110122_184437-4500-4540.jpg I had unexpected clear weather this afternoon, and a 76 deg ESE pass, but saw nothing (alternating between 10x50 and 1x5 power) within +-2 min, just UARS later. Yesterday it cleared late evening, and I discovered/checked the new USA 224 elset just 15 min before the best pass, 14 deg N. But I found no spot to observe without (sparse) trees, so I concentrated on a later part at 10 deg, but saw nothing within +- 4 min On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 11:02:57 -0500 "Ted Molczan" wrote: > Viktor Voropaev wrote: > >> According to reports from Yarovoye (Russia) the >>satellite had >> a brightness of about 2m. More information and photos is >>here: >> http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php/topic,7897.msg1452931.html#msg1452931 >> (in Russian only, I'll translate if necessary). > > I have not seen any confirmation that the images are of >NanoSail-D, so I analyzed one of them, and > it appears to correlate closely with the current TLE >provided by NASA: > > 1 90027U 0 11021.03111096 +.00000496 +00000-0 >+78023-4 0 00033 > 2 90027 071.9761 003.6513 0021431 200.5132 159.5103 >14.77037263000254 > > The observer's stated coordinates are 52.9206N, >78.5828E. Altitude not stated, but Heavens-Above > reports ~100 m for several locations in the vicinity. It >is not clear whether this is the exact site > from which the image was taken, but that is what I >assume. > > The filename of the second of the three images (URL >below) indicates that it was taken on 2011 Jan > 22 at 18:45:00, which is the observer's local time, 6 h >ahead of UTC; therefore, ~12:45 UTC. > > http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=iiobj9078q38e74t29l3quufo7&action=dlattach;topic=7 > 897.0;attach=286144 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20110123/9e2d27db/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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