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Flashing object passing NGC 7000
On Sep 6th at 21:57 UT when I was looking at the North America Nebula
with an 8 inch reflector and O-III filter I noticed an object that was flashing about every 4th second from invisible to maybe 9th magnitude. It was moving very slowly in the field maybe 0.5 degree/minute westwards. It was pretty cool and confirmed by three other observers. I pretended it was a pulsar in the nebula What satellite did I see? From using the NASA JTrack 3D simulator I think it could be maybe GPS BIIA-25 (also named USA 117, Navstar 2A-25, GPS 33). It has a period of ~12 hours. My position was latitude +57.58 north and latitude +12.62 east (Sweden). Roger Persson |
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I get Molniya 3-43 ( 22255 ) being in the area at the time. No gps
satellite was in the area at the time. Kevin |
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Which program did you use? I tried Heavens Above but it says Molniya
did not have any visible passes at that time. ? Roger Persson astrobrock wrote: I get Molniya 3-43 ( 22255 ) being in the area at the time. No gps satellite was in the area at the time. Kevin |
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