Last night I saw to bright ( at least as, or brighter than venus ) flashes. It looks like it was the tumbling iridium 49 satellite as it was in the general area at thw right time. I would have not seen it if I hadn't made a mistake with the time of the OCS satellite pass. I went out at 22:23 EDT (July 20 02:23 UTC ) to watch the pass of OCS when I saw the flashes. It turns out OCS passed by 2 minutes earlier. I also saw the ikonos satellite for the first time, it was visible to the naked eye, but not very bright around mag 4-5 . I have a question, how many people use a low light video camera to take pictures of passing satellites. What I mean do you capture the images and use the images plus a source of time, to determine certain points along it's pass to be used for generating a new orbit based on this data. Are is harder than using you eyes and a stopwatch. I want to get a supercircuits PC23C Monochrome C-Mount Security Camera, to use it for timing lunar occultations, but thought it could also be used for measuring the positions of satellites or should I not bother with that aspect of using the camera. http://www.supercircuits.com/ Thanks Kevin Fetter 44.6062 -75.6910 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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