Gents, I just observed a pass of Phobos-Grunt and the Zenit second stage. The rocket body was tumbling slowly, and the probe itself appeared to be very steady as it passed. I did not get good timing information, but the probe was definitely steady. I saw no other objects along the track the probe followed. Both objects appeared to be on time with the ephemerides from the latest element sets. I used the latest element sets from Space-Track (Set 013 for the probe and Set 011 for the rocket body) and TS Kelso's "Trakstar" program to generate the pointing angles. Location: near Dayton, Ohio at 39.8735, -84.1197 and 286 meters elevation. Mike Murphy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111111/c93c40e7/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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