texas observation

Jeff Kosecki (jkosecki@vvm.com)
Wed, 3 Sep 1997 15:11:41 -0500

hi, im new to the list and would like to ask this.

>I saw an interesting satelite the other night.  I tried the satspy program to
see if showed up on the timeline.  Saw it 0505CDT  27AUG97 using the Austin TX site.
>
>I would say the heading was 30degrees entry(AOS), 120degrees(MEL),  200
degrees exit(LOS) -----Max eleviation 50-60 degrees
>
>I tried the program with elsets data and nothing came up.  This had some
very large solar panels and seemed to be in a lower orbit.  ld like to know
what that was
>
>jeff
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