Optical 2nd Nov 2011 -part 3

From: Greg Roberts (grr@telkomsa.net)
Date: Fri Nov 04 2011 - 09:39:25 UTC

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    Observations 02 Nov 2011
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    Meade DSI Pro II Monochrome CCD camera without filters.
    using integration times of 06 sec min to 35 seconds maximum
    No image processing done.
    Used with 50mm focal length f/1.8 lens,field of view 7 x 5.3
    degrees. A 6 sec exposure with nearby first quarter moon shows
    stars down to about mag +11
    Exposure time to nearest second inserted into image FITS header
    from PC clock which is checked against GPS signal.
    
    Site 0433 : Longitude 18.51294 deg East, Latitude -33.94058 deg,
    Elevation 10 metres-situated in Pinelands (Cape Town),South Africa
    
    FOR CLASSIFIED.TLE:
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    MERCURY 2
    23855 96 026A   0433 G 20111102211444000 56 15 0101190+054006 39
    23855 96 026A   0433 G 20111102211921000 56 15 0105280+055143 39
    23855 96 026A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0108250+055847 39
    23855 96 026A   0433 G 20111102212609000 56 15 0111200+060548 39
    
    ANOTHER UNKNOWN!!!!!
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    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102211444000 56 15 0105560+045932 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102211605000 56 15 0106430+050651 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102211727000 56 15 0107340+051344 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102211921000 56 15 0108420+052317 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102212225000 56 15 0110280+053639 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0110430+053734 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102212344000 56 15 0111150+054210 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102212609000 56 15 0112410+055236 39
    99999 99 999A   0433 G 20111102212701000 56 15 0113130+055645 39
    
    STRAYS SEEN:
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    EUTELSAT W3C
    37836 11 057A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0108530+052148 39
    EUROBIRD 16
    25237 98 013A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0110460+052319 39
    EUTELSAT W2M
    33460 08 065B   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0111070+051839 39
    SESAT
    26243 00 019A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0111320+052251 39
    HOTBIRD 9
    33459 08 065A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0058150+052527 39
    HOTBIRD 8
    29270 06 032A   0433 G 20111102212251000 56 15 0058270+052823 39
    SICRAL 1B
    34810 09 020A   0433 G 20111102212609000 56 15 0056070+051848 39
    EUTELSAT W2A
    34710 09 016A   0433 G 20111102212609000 56 15 0047510+052607 39
    ARABSAT 5A
    36745 10 032B   0433 G 20111102213032000 56 15 0225430+052752 39
    INTELSAT NEW DAWN
    37392 11 016A   0433 G 20111102213032000 56 15 0236110+052226 39
    E BIRD
    27948 03 043A   0433 G 20111102213032000 56 15 0237300+052544 39
    
    NOTES:
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    (1) For fun decided to identify the geosats seen in the images taken
        with the wide field camera and of course (!) another unknown!
        Steady and quite bright - probably around may 7.5-8. Wonder if
        its the same unknown mistaken for Vortex 6 on 1 Nov - be nice if
        it is as we then can get a reasonably good orbit :-))
    
    (2) Not all geosats seen reported as sometimes difficult to identify
        which is which - eg ignored the Astra 2A etc grouping which has 4
        satellites as well as EUROBIRD. As the CCD camera has a few dead
        pixels I have still to remove them in software so there may well
        have been a few more geosats!
    
    Cheers
    Greg
    
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