After nine straight days of rain and even more cloudy ones, it was a pretty nice evening. My Quicksat prediction for 90019 was for culmination at 280 km orbital height. It was fast and bright; I thought at brightest it seemed almost as bright as Spica. Unless I goofed (certainly possible) I think it was roughly 14 seconds late (Quicksat) on this elset: Unknown 031017 6.0 2.0 0.0 4.5 v 12 1 90019U 03790B 04172.33632692 0.00372000 00000-0 98044-3 0 09 2 90019 27.2909 185.7513 1173176 28.3737 331.6251 13.52016979 00 I think the following point is fairly good; it very nearly hit the star, but it was moving so rapidly, I'm not sure about how accurate the click was: UTC 2004-07-01 02:29:10.2 RA 13:47:25, Dec -17.9 That seems to make it north of the predicted track off by at least a degree -- maybe due to decreased eccentricity (?). My location was E. Ney Museum: 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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