The time I mentioned was for a star next to Polaris, so off the top of my head… no idea.. :-) >From zero to 42 deg azimuth in 15 seconds.. Sounds darn good to me.. I had downloaded the full catalog from inside Heavensat about 9 hours ago.. Once I post my video, the starting point is the only actual star in the FOV at the middle right (ignore the two hot pixels..) is the first star back from Polaris in the Little Dipper... Mag 4.3 TYC 4655-1053.. and the time from each frame is clear for the center of the frame.. If split into fields, each time stamp is for the end of the field.. The previously mentioned time is an eyeball / freeze frame from the camcorder estimating the line from this star to Polaris.. Heavensat said it should have been farther from Polaris.. i.e. opposite side of the star.. FOV is something like 7x5 deg.. Derek PS.. now to convert the video to bite size and post it.. Maybe 30 minutes.. ________________________________________ From: Paul Salanitri [mailto:paul.salanitri@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 7:46 PM To: Derek C Breit Cc: Seesat List Subject: Re: New ROSAT video forthcoming Hi Derek, [stvgcc3]$ ./satproc ROSAT-pgspred21-1 lalo 37.83 -122.26 21/10/2011/00:00 1.0 Date Time UTC Dist Azim Alt Sunalt ? Sat FIRST Fri 21 Oct 2011 1h:57m:24s 1635 315.08 0.01 Lit -7.3 192.1 ROSAT 20638 HIGH Fri 21 Oct 2011 2h:01m:04s 247 41.88 54.40 Lit -8.0 188.0 ROSAT 20638 LAST Fri 21 Oct 2011 2h:02m:58s 878 121.61 9.38 Dim -8.4 190.7 ROSAT 20638 According to these stats (from current TLEs) it should have been at peak altitude 54deg at 7:01:04 your time? Does this match? Paul Salanitri On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Derek C Breit <breit_ideas@poyntsource.com> wrote: First off, Simone's flare prediction did not happen for me from az 359 to losing it in the trees at about az 135.. vaguely.. The reason I am sending this "advance warning" is, though I haven't double checked, ROSAT seemed quite early.. OK.. let's take a quick look.. Heavensat says it'll be there at 7:01:23 PM Local (PDT).. It was "there" at 7:00:51 and well off track.. Assuming I was on the right star and I used a team effort to say.. "Yep.. Right there.." Should I try and derive a position??? Derek -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111020/a2a0 1d1b/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l ________________________________________ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1831 / Virus Database: 2092/4564 - Release Date: 10/20/11 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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