Re: Obs from 5918 (and TV)

From: Leo Barhorst (leobarhorst@zonnet.nl)
Date: Tue Nov 09 2004 - 13:41:03 EST

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    Nice video, Bjorn.
    A bit hard to understand that swedish.
    
    Must be wonderfull to have such a great zoomlens!
    
    Greetings and clear, dark skies
    Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL
    Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL
    http://www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html
    
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: <b_gimle@algonet.se>
    To: <seesat-l@satobs.org>
    Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:35 PM
    Subject: Obs from 5918 (and TV)
    
    
    > 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
    >
    >
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