Hmmm Kevin, with images you should be able to get much more precise positions using astrometric software like Astrometrica (originally for asteroids & comets) or Astrorecord (originally for meteors). www.atromtrica.at www.imo.net - Marco Kevin Fetter wrote: > I thought I have some fun, and use ted's program to measure a position for Aqua. > > I captured a still image from a pass of of Aqua. > > http://www.kfetter.100megs26.com/observe/aqua.jpg > > The time of the still is May 5, 2005 at 6:33:05.9602 UTC +/- 0.03 seconds. > > The config file I used. > > http://www.kfetter.100megs26.com/observe/ObsReduce.ini > > Aqua is 27424 > > I measured the screen and got 15 mm / 62 mm. 62 mm is what I got for the distance between the > bright star at the top, and the bright star at the bottom, that aqua form's a line with. Aqua was > 15 mm from the bottom bright star. > > So 15/62= 0.2419 So I used 0.2419 where it say's frac AS/AB > > I would estimate aqua was around mag 4.9 at the time. > > I got the following result. > > 2005 May 09 06:33:05.96 UTC 02022A 27424 > > Star A: 20:47:10.7534 +34:22:26.869 (2000.0) Mag 5.076 > Star B: 20:53:53.8920 +33:26:16.416 (2000.0) Mag 5.644 > > Object on line AB, 0.241900 from A to B; Star Sep = 1.679 deg > > Object: 20:48:49.0926 +34:08:59.256 (2000.0) +/- 0.084 deg (0.050 X Star Sep) > > Obs - Pred: 0.838 deg X-track; 0.481 s early, relative -0.11 day old elset: > > 27424 02 022A 1776 G 20050509063305960 36 25 2048818+340899 58 S > > Kevin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > -- ----- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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