Caught a brief pre-shadow-entry pass of the Orbital Express Centaur, and it looked like a Centaur. It had a period of roughly seven seconds, with a secondary maximum, and the primary maximum was bright. Earlier I managed to see the primary payload(s). I had identical predictions for 30772/07-006A and 30774/07-006C (two-day-old elements) but saw just one object. It wasn't (they weren't) very bright. I think Mike's +5.5 intrinsic magnitude (about +7.0 standard, I think) was close. The prediction was +5.4, and that was about right, I think. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA ____________________________________________________________________________________ TV dinner still cooling? Check out "Tonight's Picks" on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Mar 17 2007 - 02:46:14 EDT