I replied with predictions to Robert Holdsworth: I have not been able to find any decaying satellite at the time and place, and the satellites going west-east at the time is very small. I ran the alldat.tle file with 8500 objects, tried to filter out objects predicted fainter than mag +8, or more distant than 6666 km. There is a Transit 4B rocket moving up towards Jupiter at a height of 1095 km , entering shadow before reaching Jupiter, which is at azimuth 33 degrees, altitude 38 (hidden by Cosmos 372 nametag). Much lower than Jupiter is Yuri rocket, 78-39 B, moving in the 4 o'clock direction, also entering shadow at 1455 km height. The right part of the chart is almost empty, because of Earth shadow. In the left part is a known bright 'glint' source, DMSP 5D-2 S-14, 97-12 A, #24753, but it is moving 6 o'clock. (If the camera is pointing low, but Jupiter is visible, the field must be quite large) /Björn Gimle -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- > Location is 25 42.467S and 31 32.091 E and direction of cam is 021 degrees. > I am unsure of the extent of the field of vision. > > At 20:14:11 on Sunday 2 March 2003 according to the camera timestamp I > observed a very bright object which appears to have a trail indicating > movement from right to left of the cam from the viewer's perspective > (presumably east to west based on the information above.) Altitude appears > to be quite low. Jupiter or Saturn is also clearly visible a few degrees > further east and higher. The unidentified object was not present in > subsequent frames- the cam refreshes every 30 seconds. The accuracy of ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Mar 03 2003 - 16:06:07 EST