At last an evening with only a few clouds, and I managed to see ERS-1 at 60 deg el. NE. It was about 10 seconds early on elset below, but my memory stopwatch is still at Malma and I lost ERS while reading the time, and forgot the exact time before coming close to pen and paper. It was easy at about mag.´3.8 and almost steady - periodic variation less than 0.5 magnitudes, and if really present, the period seemed longer than 6 seconds. 1 21574U 91050A 00074.37203819 .00000709 00000-0 26870-3 0 429 2 21574 98.5490 149.7728 0036628 79.9240 280.6088 14.33756452453004 Latest elset: ERS 1 1 21574U 91050A 00075.76776846 .00000362 00000-0 14479-3 0 469 2 21574 98.5501 151.1533 0036359 75.4717 285.0487 14.33760621453206 appears to be off by the same amount! >ESA's ERS-1 satellite fell victim to gyro failure last friday and is now >spinning at a rate of about 10 RPM. Since the satellite is quite similar >to the notorious flasher SPOT 3 , I assume that it's worthwhile to have -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2615 N, 18.6206 E, 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- -- SeeSat-L / Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at -- -- http://www2.satellite.eu.org/satintro.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
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