Re: Decay Watch: Cosmos 2326, 6 Nov 97
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 06 Nov 1997 15:12:35 -0600
Thursday morning I also observed Cosmos 2326 using the same
SatEvo elset that Ron Lee posted. We have a predicted pass
here for Friday morning that I plan to try to observe, weather
permitting. Thanks to Alan Pickup for those SatEvo elsets!
This morning there was a very nice, kind of close (10 deg.?)
crossing of the new Titan 4 (25018, 97-64B) with Cosmos 100 Rk
(01844, 65-106B), both of approximately the same bright visual
magnitude (approx. +2?).
After getting advice last night from Mike McCants, I created
some attempted search elsets for Lacrosse 3 but did not
observe anything that could have been a candidate.
It was a nice morning; I saw 15 objects using one-power only,
from the park very near my apartment. The last one, Magion 5
Rk (24294, 96-50D) was surprisingly bright (+1.5?) in the
dawning light (solar elev. -8). Its height above the surface
was 290 km (181 miles) -- near perigee I guess.
Ed Cannon
ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Austin, Texas, USA -- 30.3086N, 97.7279W, 150m