Brightness of Sputnik 1 payload and rocket?

From: Bruce MacDonald (mu_cephei@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 15:00:58 EDT

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    Thanks to everyone who replied to my message about elsets for Sputnik 1 and 
the R-7 rocket.

I have another question.  When working out the brightness of the payload and 
rocket I calculated that the payload would be around mag 6 and the rocket 
mag 0 (based on 50% phase at 500km range).  I would be interested to learn 
from anyone who may have seen them what the brightness of each object 
actually was.

Thanks in advance,

Bruce


Bruce MacDonald
COSPAR Site 2751
Devizes, Wiltshire, UK
51.3440°N 1.9849° W 125M (WGS84)

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