All - Has everyone seen the questions about OTV-5 and possible sub-satellites? We did have a couple of messages here earlier but there has been more discussion in other forums. Now OTV-4 did deploy 10 small satellites - I don't see that we were ever able to track any of them. Did I miss anything? Did anyone see any small objects near OTV-5? So far the satellite catalog has no additional objects from 2019-052, you would think that the Air Force would catalog them so that the operators could track them and communicate with them. In other news - the Clear Lake City. Texas observatory is back up now that cool weather has arrived. I am taking observations with a used Nikon D200 camera and lens but am waiting for a cable to arrive. The cable will connect my GPS device to the camera so I can get accurate time on my observations; as soon as the cable arrives I hope to be finally submitting observations. I can clearly see OFEQ 9 and 10, USA 281, and similar low orbiting satellites but the time is not accurate enough. I am hoping to be able to track some semi-synch objects as well. I am going to be up in Colorado Springs in the first week of November (visiting some Space Command people) and hope to have a chance to get out and take some observations while I am there. Charles Phillips Spaceflight Research, LLC Houston, Texas 713-882-4578 sites.google.com/site/spaceflightresearchprojects/ _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Oct 28 2019 - 15:32:54 UTC
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