Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 1:16 AM
Subject: TVSat 1
> Last night Mike McCants and I caught the last several
> bright flashes of TVSat 1 (87-095A, 18570) at around
> 5:32 UT (June 23), with a flash period of about 24.3
Using the following approximate derived central coordinates:
Flash RA Dec
2000-04-17 05:25 GS0417 08:25 2
2000-04-19 03:33 SLL0419 06:38 2.9
2000-04-19 03:43 RGL0419 06:40 2.2
2002-06-23 05:32 Ed0623 20:16 -14.8
2001-09-14 02:23 Ed0914 17:40 -12.3
2001-09-17 03:00 Ed0917 17:23 -11.6
I get a cone angle of 97 degrees, now centered on 19:21 62.9879 -4.63888
2002-09-11 04:00
(RA Dec Prec h/yr until)
This axis will have it flashing near RA 22:30 Dec -14.5 today for 30.3N, 97.9W
Ten degrees further N moves the flash -20 min, -1.3 deg.
Ten degrees further E adds 1.3 min (time UTC 05:25)
One day later adds 1.2 min RA, +20 min UTC
/Björn
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