In a message dated 10/31/99 2:04:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, finn@main.jetnet.ab.ca writes: > I discounted the 2 Iridiums as the track of this unknown, which has been > ID'd by Don Gardner as Cosmos 2322 #23704 95058A. The object remained > visible for approx 45 sec from the time i noticed it until it went into > shadow. The Iridiums had a more N-S track while the one i saw was definately > an N-E track. My deck where i do my observing faces due East so the bearings > of objects i see are pretty accurate. Elevations i have trouble with. Ahh, once again, I let magnitude filtering trip me up (missed it by 0.1). Kudos to Don for bagging another UNID! Time to paint another satellite silhouette on the side of that monitor. ;) > Thanks Stephen for offering alternates to the unknowns. > > Jari It's a good exercise. This one has me thinking of adding a 'bearing' filter to my search controls... _______________________________________ Regards, Stephen stephmon@aol.com xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x Satellite Hunting™ visible pass x x prediction shareware v1.1.0 x x is now available for download at x x http://stephen.fathom.org/sathunt.html x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ Satellite Hunting User's Group (SHUG) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html