I can't add anything more to the thanks to Bart, and to his choice of Ted as successor. I was one of the early subscribers to SeeSat-L, and before that I used Ted's CBBS for a long time. First night after Midsummer that I stayed awake till local midnight, when Sun finally crept below -10 degrees, I made three positional observations of USA 161, but my stopwatch was then just that - stopped. Two 1-power unknowns at 22:05:30 and 22:07 between Cassiopeia and Cepheus were identified with SkyMap (based on position, speed and direction of motion) as 87-062A Cosmos 1869 and 74-025A Meteor 1-17. Both were brighter than expected, at least +3. 87-62A faded within 30 s to normal brightness, but I didn't follow 74-25A more than the 16.2 seconds to cross the 7.1 degree FOV. Finally I got two positions each on (NOSS) USA 160. 26905 01 040A 5919 G 20020729221456000 17 25 2027460+810147 28 26905 01 040A 5919 G 20020729221538640 17 25 2327100+702170 18 26907 01 040C 5919 G 20020729221502220 17 25 2030510+810700 18 26907 01 040C 5919 G 20020729221545310 17 25 2329900+701400 38 -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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