Hi all, On my images of yesterday, is a bright near-geostationary object that I cannot 100% identify with a known object. The only possible candidate I can find would be Mercury 2 (96-026A, 23855) but then it would be off in position: 00000 00 000X 4353 G 20120618223432250 17 75 1747298-168680 56 00000 00 000X 4353 G 20120618224332250 17 75 1757194-169560 56 Very approximate orbit using Scott's software: 1 00000U 00000X 12170.94690104 0.00000073 00000-0 50000-4 0 06 2 00000 8.7402 9.8836 0000122 49.9816 208.0128 1.07206948 07 Mercury 2 (from inttles file) 1 23855U 96026A 12170.23476887 .00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 05 2 23855 8.8849 11.6188 0523724 204.3995 153.0540 1.00306992 392 Note: This is with my new camera (Canon EOS 60D - my old 450D died on me in te second half of May, with shutter failure) and I am still in the process of calibrating the timing of this camera. I have used some preliminary calibration results but times still can be off a bit (but by no more than 0.1s I suggest). For geostationary objects, this potential error does not matter much, I believe. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@langbroek.org Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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