Hi all, I just observed (01:42 UT on Aug. 01) two of the four catalogued objects from today's launch of the Koronas-F satellite using the following TLEs : CORONAS-F 1 26873U 01032A 01212.71735990 .00321915 00000-0 14481-1 0 35 2 26873 82.4916 95.4237 0031625 258.4134 101.2394 15.19233205 69 SL-14 R/B 1 26874U 01032B 01212.71732869 .00002173 00000-0 10000-3 0 46 2 26874 82.4882 95.4215 0031510 259.4290 100.2196 15.19345985 63 SL-14 DEB 1 26875U 01032C 01212.58641734 .07672516 00000-0 33690+0 0 27 2 26875 82.5097 95.6713 0059862 284.6989 74.8432 15.14747972 36 SL-14 DEB 1 26876U 01032D 01212.38806530 .00002613 00000-0 10000-3 0 25 2 26876 82.4270 95.5726 0031939 259.7672 99.9963 15.25627912 06 The two Deb objects were not seen in my 20x80 in a city sky with a mag 8 limit. But the other two were easy naked eye. The R/B was ahead of the satellite by 5 seconds (about 3.5 degrees). Both were steady with the satellite at mag 2.5 and the rocket at 3.0. A nice sight. Ten minutes later in the same area of the sky, I saw ISS make a great pass which culminated in a slow but bright flare at mag -4. The station has been reported making great flares in the last couple of days. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.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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