Re: Oldest SAT

Tony Beresford (starman@camtech.net.au)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 11:55:00 +0930

At 05:47 8/06/99 , Hedgepet@stihl.de wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>

>SatSpy 3.0 predicts a decent pass almost directly overhead of my location
>tonight (though it is scheduled to rise in the West only 19 minutes after
>sundown local time).
>
>Here's wishing everyone dark skies and mild temperatures.
>
>Troy
>36.7653N 76.2178W, 3.7m
>Chesapeake, Virginia, USA
Troy, Quicksat indicates a maximum brightness of mag 11.3,
at a range of 1150Km. I think this is probably best range you are going to get.
The brightness ties in with the standard magnitude quoted in the molczan file,
and it size. I doubt whether any  telescope would show anything this
faint 19 minutes after sundown. In a dark sky use of at least an 8-inch scope
as Ron Lee reports would be almost mandatory.
Tony Beresford
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