Ed Cannon wrote: <Snipola> > If it traveled from Alphard to Castor in about two minutes, > IRS-P2 (23323, 94-068A), known to give very bright flashes > on some passes, is a reasonable candidate. At 4:10:03 UTC > it was at about RA 9:30, Dec. -9.8 (2000 coordinates; > altitude 37, azimuth 221). It culminated alt. 45, azi. 264, > and at 4:12:07 it had reached RA 7:57, Dec +29.9 (alt. 43, > azi. 281). Very bright flashes indeed! They were hard to miss. I thought it was a plane but there were no other strobes or beacons. When I saw the second flash I knew it had to be a sat. I've been in email contact with Bjorn Gimle and from the map he provided I concur that IRS-P2 is the likely candidate. I looked again using the TLE files I had and I find a good match to IRS-P2. It didn't show up in my postdictions last night because I had the filters set wrong. duh.... Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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