I frequently receive photographs from my friend meteor observer, living about 40 miles south of me. Location 5.13833 E, 50.81899 N. On these photographs are traces of satellites of which he wants to know which satellite produced them. Amongst his records were two of the same object, as given in the subject. I was able to identify it as Kosmos 1994-077A a Tselina 2 type Kosmos. The nice thing of Tselina 2 Kosmos satellites is that the shift in transittime per day cancels out the shift in orbital plane precession. Not exactly, but almost. That means a satellite will be "seen" in about the same sun - observer - configuration in subsequent days. This was also derived from these photographs. My identifications yielded the following results: 2012-06-30 01:16:24 RA 17h 06m dec -2 Az 232 deg alt 25 deg 2012-07-01 01:03:22 RA 17h 03m dec -2 Az 230 deg alt 25 deg Bram Dorreman using 7x50 binoculars and/or unaided eyes Site 4160: 51.27931 N, 5.47683 E, 35 m (WGS84) _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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