I found USA 197 (DSP 23, 32287, 07 54A) last night about 5 degrees east of the predicted position. I missed the bright flashes by a few minutes, but I saw faint flashes every 2.5 seconds and then magnitude 8 flashes for about 10 minutes in the moonlight. Since it has maneuvered, I have guessed that the mean motion is near 1.000, this could be off a little bit. The bright flashes should occur around RA 22Hr 0Mn tonight and the RA will increase by 4 minutes every night since the sun moves 4 minutes east per day. USA 197 1 32287U 07054A 07323.91013211 0.00000000 00000-0 00000-0 0 04 2 32287 3.9960 274.7936 0003000 60.1858 299.8142 1.00000000 06 Mike McCants Austin, TX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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