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(meteorobs) Weird observation Solved




Thankx to 	Tony Beresford <starman@camtechdot net.au> that solved the puzzle

following his elusive message.

> Paulo, This is the output of Mike Mccant's findsat programme
> operating of Mike's list of geostationary satellites ,
> geo.zip, taken from his web site ( ftp://ftp.fcdot net/pub/users/mikem)
> about 00:00 UT April 10.
> The satellites given are all in the Hot bird series,
> (from looking a Mike's highfly.mag file),
> a set of military communications satellites. There was also 
> a commercial comsat ITALSAT 1 about 1.7 degrees North of the
> cluster. 
> ----------------------
> Findsat Version 1.7
>  -15.8670   47.9170  1000. Brasilia                
> 1999  4  9 22 44   .0  13 19.0   2.50 2000.
>  NCat TmEr PosEr     R  A    Dec
> 23537  -31    .0   13 19.0  2.52 95016B         95016B  
> 24665    0    .1   13 18.9  2.58 96067A         96067A  
> 25237  -36    .0   13 19.0  2.47 Hot Bird 4     98013A  
> 25495  -34    .0   13 19.0  2.49 98057A         98057A  
> 
> Hotbird 1 = 23537
> Hotbird 2 = 24665
> Hotbird 5 = 25495
> 
> Hotbird 3  ( 24391 ) currently has a meen motion of 1.0048 revs/day
> when it didnt  7 weeks ago.
> 
> The changing position speed you mentioned in your first posting
> is about that of a star drifting by a geostationary satellite,
> are you sure that somehow a background star didnt confuse you.
> 

With certainty I've made a mistake in supposed movements. The 
telescope drive was not set and, as you can imagine this is not 
common for astronomy. Then I am certain that the emotion of first 
sight caused this misinformation.


Thankx for all

I'll be back to the stars



Paulo Cacella
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