Re: An UNID sat photographed on 30 AUG 2015 ; a quite big object.

From: Andriy Makeyev via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 05:48:49 +0300
Dear Alain,
It looks like you took photos of USA-198 #32378. 
I hope somebody from SeeSat-L could correct me if I'm wrong.
The trajectory looks in Heavensat like on photo but the sat is ~1.8 minutes late against future elset of epoch 15249.84376852 and ~1.5 min late against 15253.83175366 TLE.
Newer TLE was available in classfd-file on September 08 maybe a day after computation of preliminary orbital parameters by Alain Grycan (previous elset is from March 07). 
Best regards, Andriy

 --- Original message ---
 From: "Alain Figer via Seesat-l" <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
 Date: 13 September 2015, 17:47:29
> 
> On 30 AUG 2015, I photographed an UNID, absent from the Space-Track files + Classified.
> Alain Grycan of Toulouse calculated preliminary elements, such as the following :
> 
> Altitude around 7700 km ; inclination about 72°; Angular velocity : 0.031° /s ; 
> RA of ascending node : 294° ; apparent magnitude : 8.1 ; standard magnitude about 3.3 .
> 
> See coordinates, timings, photo and more info at :
> 
> https://www.flickr.com/groups/satellites_artificiels/discuss/72157631801210801/72157656244291313
 
 
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