In a message dated 10/8/00 9:34:49 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jsebolt@genie.idt.net writes: > shadow nearly overhead at 2335 UTC. Track and shadow entry seem to match > predictions by PassScheduler, QuickSat, & STSPlus. First time I have > seen a satellite this low and fast; impressive sight, indeed. My > location is 42.07n 72.60w. Didn't get accurate timings. (Jim) > > > In PPAS Format 00-056 B 00-10-08 23:35:08.00JDG 28.5 0.3 100 0.285 +2.5->inv 85-079 B 00-10-09 00:02:58.72JDG 49.1 0.3 4 12.3 +5.5->inv I manager to get a timed obs of Cosmos 2372 Rk (26539, 00056B). I don't recall ever seeing anything flashing so rapidly - about 4 flashes per second. It was preceded by Cosmos 2372 (~ +2.0 mag) by about 30 seconds. Cosmos 1680 Rk (16012, 85079B) was difficult to time once again. My splits seem to indicate an unbalanced half period. Iridium 31 made a nice -6 mag flare at 00:54:17 UTC, 9 October at az = 10 deg, el = 15 deg. If it is clear Monday evening in the Baltimore-Washington area, look for the shuttle traveling R->L about 7 deg above the horizon (below the Moon and alpha PsA) from between 20:12 and 20:17 EDT. A plot for an 20:05 launch may be found here: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/sts92.jpg Cheers Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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