All below observed through my 4 ince refractor, with focal reducer. Feild size across = approx 27 arc minutes. I was able to observe my first gps satellite this morning. Haven't tried for the gps sat's before, so it was time. Great to see a satellite, who's signal I was receiving with my gps receiver at the same time. I observed Navstar 43 are the " 13 " that shows up on gps receiver's, ie it's PRN number. http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/032007/24876.wmv It passed a bright star in called TYC 278 279 ( Tycho star catalog ) located at 11h 46m R.A +07 deg 10 min Dec I saw a Glonass satellite ( cosmos 2275 ) would be passing by, so I went to observe it. I could see it faintly flashing at first, then eventually flashed brigher. http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/032007/23045.wmv 94- 21 C 07-03-20 07:47:44 KF 45 +9->inv I will have to observe it with the wider feild setup, as it looks like it might be flashing to mag 7 are brighter, so detectable using that lens. I observed 4 geo sat's passing by a bright star ( TYC 4946 873 ) located around 12 h 18 m R.A -06 deg 26 min Dec http://www.kfetter.com/satvideo/032007/4geosat.wmv Kevin 44.6062 N 75.6910 W __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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