Morning all (yes I RARELY observe after midnight) Just observed the 2nd stage burn of the NROL-22 mission - tracked it for about 5-6 minutes before it moved behind local buildings. Fantastic sight with a broad cone behind the rocket- could not see anything starlike - the fan was very roughly 2-3 degrees long before it faded out and probably about 1 to 1.5 degrees wide -- these are all very rough as I have still to determine the scale of the CCD camera- at the last minute I switched over to a wide angle lens. Will measure later today. Thanks to Kevin for posting the URL for the Boeing site- was able to follow it all, and thanks to Ted for the search elements - satellite was a little high- maybe 1-2 degrees but otherwise good. See the local Overberg launch facility was part of the team for the NROL-22 launch -this is about 200 kms from Cape Town. Cheers - now going to take all the equipment down. Until about 10 minutes before the pass I had 65-70% cloud then it suddenly cleared and only had about 5% cloud - this time I was lucky! Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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