Today I had at last/at least a clear morning, and saw Cosmos 2410, at least as bright as mag +1, below Polaris at 03:46:20.1 UTC. RA 23:48 Dec +83.3 (2000) from site 5918 (2 sec late) Cosmos 2410 1 28396U 04038A 04313.52582512 .00634678 57783-5 40820-3 0 1789 2 28396 67.1377 91.8940 0076637 125.3740 4.1652 16.10462851 7204 Yesterday I appeared in a TV Science Magazine, shot on Sep.16 at my Malma site. The cameraman became very good at tracking satellites, and used a powerful zoom lens. Some zoom was necessary to show the satellites bright enough - he used about one degree FOV for Lacrosse and IGS! When he zoomed into Alcor-Mizar with <0.2 degrees FOV, I could see on the monitor the +7.6 mag star between them, and that Mizar is double! He followed Lacrosse 3 (#25017) high in the S at 19:28 UTC (.06 deg above beta Lyrae 19:27:14 ?) ISS rising into shadow at 19:38:39 UTC az=221º el=13º (near nu Oph) IGS 1B (#27699 03-009B) down through Big Dipper at 20:19 UTC , .4 deg left of beta UMa and a few more, not broadcasted. Some of my own (older) images, links and (swedish) text is now available at http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=3119&a=279900 http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=3119&a=279885 (Iridium) Last year when I had a similar interview on the radio, H-A statistics showed a marked increase of Swedish hits. I have saved statistics yesterday to see if there is any visible effect. Five minutes of video is found by clicking 'Till reportagen' + 'Se inslaget' below 'Satellit, satellit'. /Björn ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Nov 09 2004 - 06:37:52 EST