I had a clear view of usa 129 thru a good starfield just below mag +4.43 HD 194317 HP 100587 SAO 69950 at 03:28:50.13 UTC 21 july. the pass pos_obs appears to be 20h 24m 23.6s +32 11 42 IOD obsentry is 24680 96 072A 2101 G 20000721032850130 56 10 2024236+321142 69 S+050 05 sat arrived 5 to 7 seconds earlier and somewhat lower el than expected trak based on mccants' 202 ep tle. the above IOD is in format 1 (but as for the MX uncertainty I am not confident that I input the value that correctly expresses MX??). the ra / dec is epoch of date. the mag seemed +5 or brighter in the above 5 deg binoc fov, but seemed to fade at least 1 mag to ~+6 several seconds time NE after this position. ******************************************* Paul Gabriel 26.24310N -98.21635W 33m gabriel305@earthlink.net titan / win95C / Calypso ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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