I understand that the chances of capturing this one are not good, but it seems worth reporting on it. Maybe others in Texas or Louisiana watching HST last night saw it as well. (I'm not sure how far north it would have been visible.) Sunday evening local time (early July 11 UTC), while watching HST, I suddenly noticed to the south of it a bright (magnitude +1.5 and steady), fast-moving eastbound object. I'm not sure when Mike first saw it, but I think we both clicked at pretty nearly the same time near delta Scorpii (Dschubba, which is at RA 16:00.33, Dec -22.62). I get no match using the big file or the classfd.tle file. My best guesses now for two points (epoch 2000) are: 2:27:48.0 RA 16:00.3, Dec -22.2 (alt 37, az 166) 2:28:47.0 RA 18:27.4, Dec -24.7 (alt 18, az 134.5) In looking at charts, it seemed to me to travel fairly parallel to the ecliptic, not very far south of it. The observing site was BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Mike said that it's at least to some extent conceivable that there could be a chance that it might be the same one that I saw nine nights ago, which possibly was a GTO object: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jul-2005/0014.html 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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