Thanks for the info guys! John's animation is real cool! I'll be watching for more of these alignments. More thoughts on the subject: If I assume for a moment that when I see the two sats at max elongation of 1 arcminute that represents their true separation, then (please check my math!) [22,223 miles * 2pi] / 360 =388 miles (624 km) per degree or about 6.5 miles (10.4 km) per arcminute. Isn't this essentially correct? That's closer than I thought they would be! Mike's ID of my geosats seems to be correct! Using those as a known reference point the rest of my observed sats fell (mostly) right into place, corresponding well with a recent list of geosats from Cal-Sky. Now I know what I'm looking at! Thanks Mike!!! I'm clouded in now, just in time for the geosat flares, paying for the past few weeks of perfect skies....... Bob Hampton 35.9465N, 82.2147W, 2,965 ft. http://thunderstruckobservatory.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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