Another reply. I just retrieved more recent TLE's and now it looks as if the elements of Envisat and its rocket have been interchanged. Envisat in a slightly higer orbit and more circular than its rocket. I have the opninion this is correct. So during Friday and Saturday I saw the rocket first instead of Envisat itself first. It does not make much difference for my magnitude estimates. Bram Dorreman, COSPAR 4160 (Achel 1): 51° 16' 45.5" N (51.2793 N), 5° 28' 36.6" E (5.4768 E) -----Original Message----- From: Jari <finn1@telus.net> To: Sat <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Date: zondag 3 maart 2002 7:05 Subject: Ir D Flare and Envisat R Obs > >At 05:22:40 Envisat Ariane 5 r was sceduled to become sunlit just below >Polaris so a few moments before it's time i went out and brought my 10x50s >to bear in the area where it was expected to be when to my surprise a NOSS >trio was right there in my FOV. It turned out to be the Noss 2-2 trio so i >followed them until they went behind my house and then looked for Envisat 5 >r. I found it but it was very faint, Skymap gave me a magnitude of 9.6, the >NOSS trio were much brighter. Several minutes later Envisat was due to >arrive but even though i knew where it would be, i couldn't find it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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