I love it when the numbers work out :-) Should have passed Polaris at 7:00:47 your time, 10 degrees above it? UTC Dist Az El Sun 2h:00m:41s 299 350.82ø 41.74ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:42s 295 352.09ø 42.50ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:43s 291 353.43ø 43.26ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:44s 288 354.85ø 44.03ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:45s 284 356.33ø 44.80ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:46s 280 357.90ø 45.56ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:47s 277 359.55ø 46.32ø Lit -8.0ø North 2h:00m:48s 274 1.28ø 47.07ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:49s 271 3.11ø 47.81ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:50s 268 5.03ø 48.54ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:51s 265 7.05ø 49.24ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:52s 262 9.17ø 49.92ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:53s 260 11.39ø 50.57ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:54s 258 13.71ø 51.19ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:55s 256 16.12ø 51.77ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:56s 254 18.64ø 52.31ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:57s 253 21.25ø 52.79ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:58s 251 23.94ø 53.22ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:00m:59s 250 26.72ø 53.59ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:01m:00s 249 29.56ø 53.90ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:01m:01s 248 32.46ø 54.14ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:01m:02s 248 35.40ø 54.30ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:01m:03s 247 38.38ø 54.40ø Lit -8.0ø 2h:01m:04s 247 41.36ø 54.42ø Lit -8.0ø PEAK 2h:01m:05s 248 44.34ø 54.37ø Lit -8.1ø 2h:01m:06s 248 47.31ø 54.24ø Lit -8.1ø 2h:01m:07s 248 50.24ø 54.04ø Lit -8.1ø 2h:01m:08s 249 53.12ø 53.77ø Lit -8.1ø 2h:01m:09s 250 55.93ø 53.43ø Lit -8.1ø 2h:01m:10s 251 58.68ø 53.03ø Lit -8.1ø Paul Salanitri On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Derek C Breit <breit_ideas@poyntsource.com>wrote: > > > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111021/f25d7ce3/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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