as far as time goes he said, 11:32pm CDT, 04:32 6-1-2013UT. so at CDT it is 5-31 11:32 PM and UTC it's Jun 1st at 4uTC Joe Sig The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com On 6/12/2013 9:39 AM, George Roberts wrote: > .02 degrees per minute is 1.2 degrees per hour which is indeed too fast. > Enciladus that night was moving about .006 degrees per hour. > > Our moon moves about .5 degrees per hour (against the stars). So if this > object is orbiting the earth it's closer than the moon but much much farther > than the geosynch satellites. > > So it wouldn't be something normally visible in a 1 meter scope without a > CCD I would think. I mean the geosynch satellites are typically only > visible in a telescope twice a year when the sun lines up just right. It > seems very unlikely that something smaller than a football field would be > visible at all plus there are only a handful of earth satellites past > geosynch but closer than the moon: > Chandra Space telescope is the only one that comes to mind and it's quite > large but it was nowhere near the ecliptic (not near saturn). > > So asteroid maybe? I checked for both UT june 1 and june 2 and found > nothing (you didn't answer the question about friday versus saturday night): > http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/checkneo.cgi > > Whatever it was, it seems unlikely it was a spacecraft. Do you know the > approximate magnitude? Geosynch sats are mag 11 to 14 typically. Something > 5 times farther away would be much dimmer. > > - George Roberts > http://gr5.org > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130612/6a21c9ed/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: CLEAN-IDLE-TYME-LOGO-100-50.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 7055 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130612/6a21c9ed/attachment.jpg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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