Re: Accurate GEO Obs plus GEO UNID
Rainer Kracht (r.kracht@elmshorn.netsurf.de)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:11:53 +2
The latest GEOLONG.HD from OIG has:
SYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE CATALOG FOR 3 OCT 1997
ASCENDING SORT ON LONGITUDE
OBJ. INT-DES COMMOM NAME USER EPOCH DAYS LAT LONG
NO. CODE FROM (DEG) (DEG)
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22930 1993-078A DBS 1 US 97267.77 8.2 0.0408 258.7032
21227 1991-028A SPACENET 4 ( US 97270.31 5.7 0.0056 258.9588
23553 1995-019A AMSC 1 US 97276.34 -1.3 0.0412 259.0670
23598 1995-029A DBS 3 US 97267.11 8.9 0.0251 259.1217
23192 1994-047A DIRECTV 2 US 97268.53 7.5 0.0327 259.2283
22796 1993-058B ACTS US 97275.44 0.6 0.0395 259.9517
Approximate LAT/LONG's from Ron's observations are:
Name NORAD Time(UT) RA (HH:MM.M) Dec (DD:MM) LAT LONG
UNID xxxxx 03:19:35.1 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 258.805
DBS 1 22930 03:18:31.5 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.039
ASC 2 21227 03:18:18.2 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.088
DBS 3 23598 03:17:57.5 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.165
DBS 2 23192 03:17:28.7 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.271
ACTS 22796 03:14:03.3 23:14.4 -06:11 -0.069 259.984
The correct identifications seem to be:
Name NORAD Time(UT) RA (HH:MM.M) Dec (DD:MM) LAT LONG
DBS 1 22930 03:19:35.1 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 258.805
ASC 2 21227 03:18:31.5 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.039
AMSC 1 23553 03:18:18.2 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.088
DBS 3 23598 03:17:57.5 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.165
DBS 2 23192 03:17:28.7 23:14.6 -06:06 0.006 259.271
ACTS 22796 03:14:03.3 23:14.4 -06:11 -0.069 259.984
Rainer