I browse the exellent pages from Paul Maley, and I see, there was, or there is a Central American Reentry Observers Network (Caron). Can be revitalize/reactivate this people to ask them to record some pass of the Phobos-Grunt? t.janos On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ted Molczan <ssl3molcz@rogers.com> wrote: > Paul Maley wrote: > > > Continuing observations from Nov 11 (from Oklahoma City), 13 (from > Houston) and 19 (tonite) > > show Phobos-Grunt to be slowly varying in brightness and not exhibiting > any obvious tumbling > > scenario. On Nov 19 at 11:20UT I was able to track the payload for more > than 120 seconds > > under perfect conditions and there was no change in the lack of tumbling > signature. The > > rocket body was followed for only 65 seconds but its slow variation > revealed approximately > > 25 seconds between maxima. > > This is excellent. Did you record any imagery/video from which positional > obs could be reduced? If we can obtain a > reasonable number of obs during the brief visibility window that is > opening up for our most active observers, it could > provide insights into the orbit dynamics that are difficult to tease out > of finished product (TLEs). > > Ted Molczan > > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111119/16354996/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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