Give me the sky and I'll give you the pictures Greg :O))) We have had precious few evenings where the visibility below 30 ( max elevation of the arc here ) degrees has been useable . Noticeable has been a thick haze at these levels , even though higher elevations have on the odd evening provided good seeing. Perhaps the next few days of storms will clear the low level mists/haze/pollution for a short time giving me chance to take a look in the ten to forty degrees west area. John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Roberts" <grr@telkomsa.net> To: <SeeSat-D@satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:53 AM Subject: Re:Geo sat leading Intelsat 707=96107 > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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