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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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