In a message dated 7/7/00 8:08:31 AM EDT, brentb@micro-man.com writes: > Hope this isn't off topic. I want to set a filter in my software to sort > out Geostationary satellites from a TLE file. What would be a quick and > dirty definition such as "if altitude is greater than ??? and within?.?? > degrees of 0 latitude"? I would set the perigee at 30,000 km minimum. ////////////////////////////////////////// OFEQ 3 I finally was able to get a good obs of OFEQ 3 (23549, 95018A) with my 6" dob at 2:03 UTC, 7 July. There did not appear to be any tumbling although I observed one brief, but nondescript (i.e., non-spectacular) flash. Its brightness was steady at about a +5.5 mag (binoculars would have sufficed) and crossed the SE at a max altitude of about 47 deg above the horizon. At the max elevation it was traveling at more than 1 deg azimuth per second. TiPS I acquired TiPS as it was descending near gamma Draco (55az, 60el) at 01:40 UTC. What was unusual was that it seemed to be traveling, for the most part, end-first. IOW on all of my other obs of TiPS the tether was perpendicular to the direction of travel - which makes sense for a tether survivability experiment. On last evening pass the tether was nearly parallel with the direction of travel. Cheers Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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