I observed the second stage of the rocket that launched Echostar 23 into orbit several days ago. It was about seven seconds early on the most current NORAD elset. Magnitude around 7.0 and steady. With a range of about 13,833 km, this yields a standard magnitude of 2.4 using Skymap (Rob Matson). Time hack was at 04:12:07.5 UT on 20 March 2017 observed from Falcon CO using an 8" Celestron telescope visually. Ron Lee _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Mar 19 2017 - 23:32:19 UTC
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