Kenneth, welcome to SeeSat-L! > September 22, 2004 10:53:20 UTC (5:53:20 CDT) > > 95.5512 west longitude > > 30.4765 north latitude > > Field centered @ RA 4h 47m Dec -25d 11m (5 degree binocular field) > > I noticed the two sats in the central half of the field > moving south. The brighter was ~6th magnitude with the fainter > one (~8th mag) about 1.2 degrees to the west. The fainter satellite > was leading or trailing (did not note) in what appeared to be > perfect step - like they were part of the same craft. They took > about 30 seconds to exit the field. At first, I thought you saw two of the three satellites of the NOSS 2-1 formation, but they passed more than 90 s after your fairly precisely stated time, so I ran an IDSat search, and found these more likely candidates, both of which are rocket bodies: Iridium 4 r 5.9 2.4 0.0 5.0 v 12.4 1 24797U 97020F 04266.07505433 .00000406 00000-0 86692-4 0 8413 2 24797 86.8915 251.4009 0231779 302.6918 55.2117 14.41178859387576 trailed about 7 s and 0.6 deg to the west by: Cosmos 1598 r 7.4 2.4 0.0 5.5 v 8.00 1 15293U 84100B 04266.71267939 -.00000044 00000-0 -62317-4 0 4241 2 15293 82.9371 252.3729 0024205 72.5988 287.7811 13.74584266948724 Their angular velocity and direction of travel through your FOV were similar. The IDSat program is available here: http://users2.ev1.net/~mmccants/programs/IDSat.zip Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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