From: Newsgroups: sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe Subject: Possible geostationary sat. in Orion. Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 22:31:23 +0000 Tonight, 2000/03/11 I saw a satellite "pass" through the trapizium in the Orion nebula. It was right in the middle of the trapizium at 20:49:40 UT. It was seen the night before, in the same place around the same time by someone else. It was also seen again a week ago, same place/time. It was flashing about once every three seconds. By turning the drive on my scope off, the satellite stayed centered, while the Orion nebula moved by. Has anyone else seen this? If not have a look. -- David Brown Bournemouth, UK --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I found no known geosync sat for Bournemouth (-1.9/+50.7 deg). The flash period is close to the 2.5 seconds of DSP F16 (at phase 90 deg). Longitude of David's object is 35 deg West. Igor Lissov's List has: DSP F15 USA 65 1990-095A 20929 37W David's object could be DSP F15. A search orbit derived from last elset of DSP F16 is: DSP 15 (USA 65) 1 20929U 91080B 00066.00000000 .00000000 00000-0 00000+0 0 06 2 20929 3.9665 61.8889 0003872 264.6785 162.3240 1.00271370 00 Rainer ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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