The Mer-B spacecraft that is! I picked it up a little south of Altair at a distance of 7000 km. Perhaps about mag 10-11. I followed it for about 5 minutes until it descended below my roof. A little warning for those of you who use elements or vectors from the Horizon's telnet site. The times for the elements are in CT (coordinate time, almost the same as TDT). For us it means you should subtract delta-T (currently about 65 seconds) to obtain UT. I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out why my SKYSAT program was giving positions that were about a radian different from Horizons. Note that Horizons predicted positions are given in UT. Randy John Pleasant Hill, CA, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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