For what they're worth, here are two attempted obs of the new USA payload (BCRC observing site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m.): 2005/05/01 02:42:03.7 RA 5:05:26 Dec +59.0 2005/05/01 02:42:07.3 RA 5:01:30 Dec +60.4 I tried to measure its separation from the Titan and got that it was roughly 44 seconds behind. I was able to see the payload without binoculars (when I lowered them to try) in the north, about +3.5. I would guess that the Titan's maxima were brighter than that. A few minutes earlier, Cosmos 2084 (20663, 90-055A) passed in front of Jupiter, as best as I could tell with my 8x42. This was at about 2:21:29.15, more or less. The NOSS 3-1 pair (01-040C and A; 26907 and 26905) were about magnitude +3.0 for at least a minute, about 3:32-33. Deep Impact Rk (05-001C, 28519) crossed with a slow-moving southbound object. It proved to be USA 144 (25744, 99-28A)! Snapshot (01314, 65-027A -- about 40 years old) flared to +3.5, not too hard to see without the binoculars, in spite of there being, by that time, some thin cirrus around. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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