Re: Superbird A, when to look

From: Bjoern Gimle (bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 05:49:53 PDT

  • Next message: Robert G Fenske Jr: "Re: Gorizont 16, continued"

    > On June 3 UTC (Saturday evening USA time) I observed Superbird A
    > from about 3:54 to 3:58, so I suggest that anyone wanting to see
    > it tonight (Tuesday evening USA time) begin looking for it roughly
    > at 3:45-55 (maybe as early as 3:40-50 if your're using a well-aimed
    > telescope).
    
    Ed is right - I corrected a sign error in the vector result for the flash
    position, forgetting that the correction had been applied to the RA/Dec
    conversion already.
    
    I now get RA 10:47, Dec +3 at 03:46 UTC tonight for Austin, Texas ,
    
    10:47 +2 03:39 UTC for San Francisco, CA
    
    -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office)                         --
    -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home)  http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle --
    -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA,    59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m         --
    -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m         --
    
    >
    > "graveyard orbit for sun-synchs" -- what was I thinking?!  I need
    > to add to my sig. a standard "This message was probably written
    > between 3:00 and 5:00 a.m. and is therefore highly suspect!"
    > But anyway, I was curious about the fate of Landsats 4 and 5.
    > I've seen Landsat 4 and Landsat 7 in the last week or so.  (Still
    > haven't managed to see Landsat 4 flares as reported by Don
    > Gardner a long time ago.)
    >
    > Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
    >
    > -----------------------------------------------------------------
    > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe'
    > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org
    > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
    >
    >
    
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe'
    in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org
    http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
    



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Jun 05 2001 - 05:51:42 PDT