Re: Identifying a sat

Mir16609@aol.com
Sun, 20 Sep 1998 01:55:15 EDT

In a message dated 98-09-19 02:32:12 EDT, you write:

> 
>  > Looks like it may be COS-B Rk.
>  
>  What list did you check?  This is why I made up VISIBLE.txt on Kelso's
>  Celestrak web site.  VISIBLE contains TLEs for almost all naked eye sats
>  that you can see.  Check it out.

Same old  -  same old...

I plugged in Nancy's location, the time of the obs and the location in the sky
into Skymap configured with McCant's latest alldat.tle and did an "all
satellite" search for a 3 minute time span.  I tend to take the predicted
brightness with a grain of salt.  They are good for typical observations but
sometimes objects become brighter than the prediction.  The predicted
brightness for that UNID was about 5.0.  

Cheers.
Don Gardner
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