On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Tony Beresford wrote: > At 20:43 8/07/03, Edward S Light wrote: > >Despite very humid hazy light-polluted skies, I managed to see an object > >pass quite close to predictions using the TLE suggested by Mike McCants: ... stuff deleted ... > Ed, > I just did a FINDSAT search on your observation, using version > of alldat.tle I got from source about36 hours ago. > I get a reasonably close match, -4 secs, 0.6 degree position error > for 93 70 B #22889 a cosmos rocket > Tony Beresford > I agree with Tony. #22889 did indeed make a very similar pass at the observed time and its apparent magnitudes on the past passes I've seen were +5 to +6 which matches what I saw this morning. However, as I recall, the object I saw MAY have been descending at a shallower angle than the #22889 pass, but I'm afraid that I have to concur what I saw was not our mystery TiPS object :( Normally, I'd have checked more thoroughly before "crying wolf" but I just didn't have the time this morning. Thanks Tony. Ed Light ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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