The message below appeared on the sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe newsgroup in the last day or so. I hope the author won't mind me quoting it here. I don't usually have GPS elements and am short of time today and so hope someone else may be able to confirm it. Ed C. >On Sep 6th at 21:57 UT when I was looking at the North America >Nebula with an 8 inch reflector and O-III filter I noticed an >object that was flashing about every 4th second from invisible >to maybe 9th magnitude. It was moving very slowly in the field >maybe 0.5 degree/minute westwards. It was pretty cool and >confirmed by three other observers. I pretended it was a pulsar >in the nebula :) > >What satellite did I see? From using the NASA JTrack 3D simulator >I think it could be maybe GPS BIIA-25 (also named USA 117, Navstar >2A-25, GPS 33). It has a period of ~12 hours. My position was >latitude +57.58 north and latitude +12.62 east (Sweden). > >Roger Persson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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