When I ran the HA bright satellite predictions for evening of July 30, Raduga 33 was shown at mag 2.7, heading nearly thru zenith NW-> SE at 287Km
altitude. I managed to catch it too! Quite a fast mover! The sky was too bright
for reliable visual observation, I was using binoculars.
It was about 40 seconds late on the HA prediction. This prediction didnt use most recent elset. The report is in IOD format, it was mag 2 as it passed the southern
most part of scorpius. this object is one of the ones in my flashers list.
The geometry of this pass of course meant that optical characteristics were
hard to measure.
23794 96 010A 8597 G 20020730083800800 27 25 1736000-460000 48 +020 05
Tony Beresford
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe'
in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org
http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jul 30 2002 - 09:28:46 EDT