Hi all! My name Vitaly Mechinsky, I'm a member of astronomy amateur club "Ash-Nu" of Minsk's Planetarium (Minsk, Belarus). I'm a coordinator of cosmonautics section of our club. Together with Zoya Kenko (she has been subscribed to "Seesat-L" too) we interesting in observations of satellites -- determination of its orbits and receiving/decoding satellite telemetry via RF-channel. So, below is our old test observations observations for the purpose of definition of TLE-elements (IOD format). Observation equipment are 150 mm f/5 newtonian (EQ3-2 mount) with Canon EOS 450D, manual tracking. Astrometry software is IzmCCD (Tycho-2 star catalog). Error of astrometry 0.83" arc. Source of exact time -- stopwatch, syncronized with NTP-server. Place of observation: observatory of Minsk Planetarium (WGS84 datum coordinates: 53 54' 16.2" N, 27 34'25.4" E). 16182 98 123LEO 7775 E 20090909010931432 17 15 1040542+595544 99 16182 98 123LEO 7775 E 20090909010932634 17 15 1042382+593658 99 16182 98 123LEO 7775 E 20090909010933775 17 15 1044343+591605 99 16182 98 123LEO 7775 E 20090909010934917 17 15 1046345+585656 99 16182 98 123LEO 7775 E 20090909010936058 17 15 1048816+583658 99 16182 98 123LEO 7775 E 20090909010937040 17 15 1049408+582006 99 16182 98 123LEO 7776 E 20090909010937961 17 15 1050570+580459 99 16182 98 123LEO 7776 E 20090909010939073 17 15 1052330+574540 99 16182 98 123LEO 7776 E 20090909010940204 17 15 1054080+572638 99 For TLE-elemens calculation we used ELFIND.5 (as a first approximation) and SATFIT.31. So, result is shown below: 1 16182U 000000 09252.04838199 0.00004500 00000-0 50000-4 0 09 2 16182 73.8261 9.8460 0021025 144.6731 278.3282 15.62477425 05 Unfortunately, we didn't observe this rocket rody during its next flight, and as a result the accuracy of our TLE is not very good. But its our first experiment on small fields of view. Is it possible, we would like to obtain a COSPAR code for our observatory (WGS84 datum coordinates: 53 54' 16.2" N, 27 34'25.4" E). -- Best regards, Vitaly and Zoya (Minsk, Belarus). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100517/6a8bb6b5/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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