At 12:40 AM 3/2/01 -0500, you wrote: >Cantv wrote: >> I am new in this hobbie. I would like to know if it is possible to see >> Geo-sats using binoculars, like for example Nonrad # 01317 ?. Reference a previous post. The dates here should have a companion around the vernal equinox. Don't have time to figure it out now. Maybe someone else will. But the answer is yes at the right time. Last year Rainer Kresken posted info on seeing GEOSATS flaring just prior to Earth shadow entry. The link is below: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Sep-1999/0002.html The dates as a function of latitude are below and we are approaching that time for the northern hemisphere. latitude optimum date (Day/month) -80 01/09 -60 04/09 -40 09/09 -20 15/09 0 23/09 +20 30/09 +40 07/10 +60 12/10 +80 15/10 I am at +39 degrees and saw several in binoculars on 6 Oct 99 and 27 in an 8" telescope on 12 Oct 99 so you do have some time around each of his dates. Reference my previous posts: http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Oct-1999/0054.html http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Oct-1999/0161.html Ron Lee ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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