Re: Another bright pass by Mir

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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Earl Needham wrote:
> 	Question for the group -- I get the Keps from AMSAT, as I'm interested in
> ham radio activity.  Is there a place to get Keps more in line with visible
> passes?  I mean for satellites that are easy to see with the naked eye.
> AO-10 was impossible to see this afternoon at sundown...

The N2L/Molczan/McCants  element sets contain bright, as well as many dimmer 
sat elements.  For exactly your needs, I make up VISUAL.txt, a list of 
elements of all (most) naked eye sats.  They generaly reach mag 3.8.
To save frustrating time looking for sats that may not be seen, no fainter 
sats are included.  TS Kelso maintains and updates the list regularly on 
his Celestial web site.  Links to there from the vsohp site. 
(I'm in the process of updating it now)

Jay Respler
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