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Seeing geosats with binoculars by
Ed Cannon
A few hours ago (Tuesday evening March 9 CST), I was able to
see *easily* a number of geostationary satellites with my 8x42
binoculars. This phenomenon occurs...
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Seeing SMART-1 by
Jonathan Silverlight
Has anyone succeeded in seeing SMART-1 yet - and does anyone know of a
source of predictions? The ESA site only has a picture of the orbit and
the NSSDC site...
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Shenzhou 5 - search elements and visibility by
Ted Molczan
Various news media are reporting that the Shenzhou 5 was launched on 2003
Oct 15 at 09:00 Beijing Time = 01:00 UTC of the same date.
If Shenzhou 5 exactly...
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Shenzhou 5 and shadow. by
Gordon Millar
Hi to all :-))
Please can someone enlighten me as to what the smaller and less brighter
object was that followed Shenzhou 5 as it passed over Wellington New...
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Shenzhou 5 sightings by
William R. Thompson
I spotted Shenzhou 5 twice this morning. The first apparition
came at 5:28 MDT, when it was at sixth magnitude and low on the
horizon. The second apparition...
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shenzhou 5 tle by
bob davis
I dl'ed mccants tle file and there are still 2 craft in there for shenzhou.
Shenzhou 5 7.0 3.0 0.0 4.0 d 20
and
Shenzhou 5 r 10.0 3.0 0.0 3.5...
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Shenzhou 6 booster tumbling? by
William R Thompson
This morning the Shenzhou 6 booster appeared to change
in brightness several times during its pass; also, it
appeared a minute later than predicted on H-A. It...
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Shenzhou 6 viewing times by
[email protected]
Hi, I'm a complete noob, how can I calculate potential viwing times for
Shenzhou 6?
Is a 42 degree orbit even visible from my lattitude (52 degrees norht)?
I...
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Shenzhou VII by
[email protected]
Just viewed a pass of Shenzhou VII last night and it occultated Alioth
as it passed through the Big Dippers handle. I could only see it with
binoculars as it...
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ShiJian 6B -- another flasher by
William R. Thompson
I've spotted Shi Jian 6b (04035C) several times over the past
few nights. It's flaring about five times per minute. I haven't
managed to spot SJ 6A yet, so I...
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shuttle carrying Brazilian by
Frederico Paiva Quintao
Dear all,
I'm new in the group and have a question:
anyone could observe the shuttle that carried the brazilian astronaut M.
Pontes? Do u know where I could...
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Shuttle Goes up Nov. 12 by
Von Fourche
I hope when the hook up with the space station that I will get the chance
to see them both close together shining bright and zooming past in the sky.
What an...
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Shuttle STS-117 First Orbit by
Flyguy
Friday June-8 9:30 PM-EDT.
Just saw the Shuttle STS-117 go over on it's first full orbit after the
launch this evening. It was moving much faster than usual....
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Sightings during Apollo missions by
William C. Keel
Consider this a "want ad" for observations of the Apollo lunar missions.
I first started collecting pointers to this stuff while doing
intro-astronomy lectures...
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Siting of STS-119 launch by
flyguy
Just saw the last few seconds of the STS-119 launch from the Albany, NY
area. It's really impressive. Looks like a small diffuse orange light.
It was moving...
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by flyguy
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SL-16 (26076) by
J. Thomas Jeffrey
Has anyone seen SL-16 (listed as bebris)? Catalog number 26076.
Heavens-Above has the magnitude listed as 4.4 but I have never been
able to see it using my...
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slow moving satellite near Albireo by
SP
Yesterday evening, Sep 17th, I invited my boss and his fam. for a look
a Mars through my telescope.
After that, I showed them some other nice interesting sky...
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SMART-1 by
Jonathan Silverlight
I've asked this before, but has anyone seen SMART-1 yet?
Heavens Above is now posting predictions for it, and it's apparently
visible for nearly four hours...
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Software for satellite observing ? by
MalcolmP
Hi,
What software do you find good to use for predictions and starchart plots ?
After several years gap I have returned to satellite watching.
(last night...
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by Merv
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