On 09/06/2018 06:32 PM, Charles Phillips via Seesat-l wrote: > wkitty42 el al - > > Thanks for any observations you can contribute, I am working with a local > amateur astronomer to begin taking observations here as well. Of course I > live in one of the worst places in the world for optical observing - we have > humidity, light pollution, haze, particulates, etc etc. i doubt that i'll be able to offer much... all i have is naked Mark I eyeballs... not even a decent set of binocs... putting the TLEs into Stellarium gives me a better idea of where it is so i can try to look at it... unfortunately, it is below my Eastern horizon at this time... i will say that i was surprised, yesterday... i did catch 90108 in Stellarium when it topped out and its range rate was 0.000 km/s... i missed exactly what time that was because i was trying to make sure i got the screen shot, too... a few hours later i was looking at it again and wow... i hadn't realized the orbits went that quickly... it was already almost bottomed out and about to head back up again... it was still (or again?) below my horizon, though... i received a more recent set of guesswork TLEs for the object... i'll have to get them into my processing so they're available for my update mechanisms to pull and use... then maybe i can see what happens from there... but seriously, don't look for much from my side... my life is in a bit of a shamble right now after finding my 84yo father (R.I.P.) when i came home from town a few weeks ago... -- NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. *Please keep mailing list traffic on the list unless* *a signed and pre-paid contract is in effect with us.* _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Sep 07 2018 - 06:19:01 UTC
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