Re: 94-35B/23133

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On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Ed Cannon wrote:
> For those who can observe low inclination objects, on Friday night 
> object 94-35B (23133, UHF F/O F3 Rk) made a very nice magnitude 1.5 
> to 1.0 pass culminating 37 degrees high at azimuth 181.  It's not 
> currently included in molczan.tle, visible.htm, visual.txt, or 
> Rainer's Top 50, and I'm not sure why I began getting its elements.  

The satellites I put in Visual.txt are generally visible to the naked eye.
94-35B is in a low inclination, high eccentricty orbit.  Thus it is naked eye
only at those rare times when it is near perigee at  your latitude.  Most
observers are not at such low latitudes and so would never get bright naked eye
passes.  That's why I leave this, and similar satellites, out of Visual.txt.

Jay Respler
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