Kevin Fetter wrote: >A faint geo sat leading Intelsat 707 ( 23816 ) is close to the predicted >position of 96107. >96107 >1 96107U 08070.93540654 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 07 >2 96107 0.2326 93.3523 0000100 247.2853 112.7220 1.00270000 00 >At 2:57 UTC ( Mar 11 ) it's around Mag 10 range. >Around 2:59:30 UTC give are take a few seconds, it passed close to TYC 4920 >1103 located around >J2000 >Right ascension: 10h55m57.0883s >Declination: -06 37' 40.305" >Kevin Hi Kevin There are a LOT of other interesting satellites in the ESA 96*** objects :-)) The one you saw was DSCS 3-14 03040A #27875 ( = 96107 = UI107). There is a chronic shortage of observers outside of the area that Peter Wakelin (UK) and myself ( South Africa ) can cover - in fact we only have coverage over about 90% of the Clarke belt so we would like to encourage observers in the western hemisphere and Australasia to give more attention to geostationaries and near geostationary satellites. Some can be as bright as magnitude +8, whilst most of the objects in the ESA#10 catalog are brighter than magnitude +13. (96*** or UI*** objects - remove the 96 or UI and its the same satellite) .Some flash with periods ranging from a second to minutes whilst others are steady - an effort is being made to determine which are easy targets but its only by means of observations that this can be achieved. Many of these objects are still operational spacecraft, even if drifting along the Clarke belt - this has been determined from radio observations. Fortunately we have good radio coverage of the Clarke belt but none over Australasia but the appeal for radio observers belongs in another newsgroup :-)) Okay off my soap-box now :-)) Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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