William B Magnusson wrote: > The mystery concerns the satellite TRMM ... 25063 97074A. None of us can see > it. No matter how hard we look or how careful we are in assembling the data. Are you looking naked eye or binocular? > The standard magnitude is listed as 3.5 and SatSpy regularly computes this > to give a visual magnitude as bright as magnitude 2 and sometimes even > brighter when the lighting is favourable. Certainly bright enough to see > even in less than ideal situations. We should be seeing it. I've seen it at mag 4.5-6. Use Intrinsic Mag of 4.5 with QUICKSAT and see what kind of predictions you get with that. -- Jay Respler -- JRespler@superlink.net Sky Views: http://mars.superlink.net/jrespler/skyviews.htm Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey