I went through Sat Sit Rept and got these RCS results: 5053 Large 2919 Med 11073 small 8368 no RCS shown. These would be very small, classified or beyond earth orbit. - Jay Respler JRespler_at_superlink.net Monroe Township, New Jersey On 2/27/20 1:36 AM, JAY RESPLER via Seesat-l wrote: > Depends how you define 'bright'. > I compile the 100 (or so) Visual list on Celestrak. These are about > 150 naked eye sats that are typically brighter than mag 3.5 > There are several 100 that I've measured with Zeiss 8x56 and Celestron > 20x80 binoculars. > I've seen Several 100 more brighter than mag 12 with a Celestron C8 > telescope. > I'm still looking for and measuring everything brighter than mag 11. > > To get an idea of what is possible, see the Satellite Situation Report. > Years ago I got NASA to add RCS to the Report just so that we could > tell what is potentially visible. > Count how many objects have RCS of Medium and Large. That should give > a rough total of 'bright satellites'. > > Let us know the results. > > - > Jay Respler > JRespler_at_superlink.net > Monroe Township, New Jersey > > On 2/23/20 9:03 AM, Anthony Mallama via Seesat-l wrote: >> I have identified just over 1,000 satellites with 15 x 50 binoculars. >> However, additional birds are becoming difficult to find. Any >> estimates of >> how many there are? >> >> Tony Mallama >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Feb 28 2020 - 23:59:44 UTC
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