Last night when I looked for the Milstar 3 Centaur (25725, 99-023B), for which I had only a culmination prediction, I tracked something, but it turns out that it was something else -- lower and faster -- and Findsat is not giving me any good candidates from the big file or classfd file. It was pretty steady, about +5.5 to +6.0. Can someone who is able (and available) to analyze somewhat rough data make orbital sense of the following (which are not too precise), please? The times are accurate. Given some rough orbits, I'll certainly try to find and track it again tonight if at all possible. The observing site was BCRC, 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. 2005 July 2 UTC; epoch 2000 5:13:58.5 16:06 +10 5:14:51.8 16:33 +10.5 5:15:53.5 17:05 +12 5:16:45.5 17:39 +13.3 Of course I wish that I had realized immediately last night that I was tracking an unid.... 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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