I was fortunate to find the DSP 23 Centaur rocket last night under clear and dark skies. It was fainter than expected - tumbling about once a second to about magnitude 11.5 or 12. Because of cirrus clouds over Austin and BCRC, I drove about 30 miles south of Austin. Revised elset: USA 197 Cn r 1 32288U 07054B 07315.89571404 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 06 2 32288 3.9650 272.1000 0001000 154.0000 206.0000 0.99676600 02 There is still some uncertainty in this elset because I cannot determine the eccentricity or argument of perigee from only two sets of observations and the mean motion is a little uncertain because the two sets of observations were for different parts of the orbit. Mike McCants Austin, TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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