2 geo sat's with the slooh scope from the other night

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 00:54:17 UTC

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    The other night, I used the slooh scope to look at 2 geo sat's, that I like to observe. One of them is no longer used, that being THURAYA 1.
    
    Intelsat 1R ( 22608 )
    
    Area of sky
    
    0h 19m 00s -4° 33' 00"
    
    Time 3:27 UTC ( Oct 11 )
    
    http://www.slooh.com/data/teide/2/widefield/2009/10/11/001900m043300_20091011_032649_6634_l.png
    
    THURAYA 1 ( 26578 )
    
    Area of sky
    
    3h 50m 00s -2° 02' 00"
    
    Time 4:27 UTC ( Oct 11 )
    
    http://www.slooh.com/data/teide/2/widefield/2009/10/11/035000m020200_20091011_042725_0302_l.png
    
    Nice THURAYA 1 is coming back in to view, from my location, so I can see what the flashing from it, is like.
    
    Kevin
    
    
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