Hi Jaro and others Just to let you know you did see Envisat. You gave it way when you say you saw an orange color. Envisat is covered in Kapton which gives it the orange color. Other sats covered in kapton I know of Lacrosse sats UARS ERBS Here is a picture of the envisat http://www.envisat.esa.int/news/launch_housing.htm It's a big satellite ! Waiting to see how bright it can get. Kevin From: "Jari" <finn1@telus.net> To: "Sat" <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Subject: Envisat Obs Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 22:51:30 -0800 Thanks to Ron Lee's Post Launch Envisat elset post i checked and saw that it would come out of shadow to the NW of my location. Since the Moon was up and the sky was hazy i used 10x50's. With my hands busy i couldn't check my watch but shortly after 06:31:12 1 Mar UTC, coming out of shadow time, i spotted a moving object in the expected direction, Az 320 El 20 deg heading to Az 339. It had an orange tint to it and i can't estimate the magnitude of it but it was easily seen with my binocs despite the sky conditions. I don't know if it was the Envisat itself or the rocket but i didn't see any object leading or trailing it but it was the object with these elsets: UNK 785 x 766 km 1 27386U 02009A 02060.12060913 -.00000044 00000-0 00000-0 0 10 2 27386 98.5327 128.7390 0013202 261.6647 98.2927 14.34878788 18 Iridium A and Envisat in one night. Woo Hoo. Jari 49.40N 125.00W 30m ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
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