> > Non-satellite obs. -- Later in the evening while looking for > Gorizont 13, I saw a +7.0 star not on the +7.5 charts (1950) that I > have. It was near iota Capricorni. There's an online site with > charts with stars to +10 (and deep-sky objects to +12.9!), but I > don't see it there either, so maybe it was an asteroid, at about > 21:19, -16.5 (2000). I never dreamed, using handheld 10x50 > binoculars, I'd need star charts to such faint magnitudes!! That Ed, take a look at the URL to the jpg on my home page (SkyMap screen shot of the "black hole") in http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Sep-2000/0158.html . Since the Earth moves 15 deg of longitude east/hour, and the sats are about 6 E.R away, the shadow moves about 2.5 deg.W in R.A./hour. Also with SkyMap you don't have to go online to find stars down to about +10 (and fainter), and you would also see planets and minor planets. (Uranus and star chart attached to Ed's copy) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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