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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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