I agree, with the students I have involved in the project , I am asking them to do flash period timings (or perhaps simply counting the number of flashes!). Realistically the project is more about getting students involved in "hands on" experience of helping build a satellite, and then observing the results of their work. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Beresford" <aberesford@iprimus.com.au> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 12:49 PM Subject: Starshine 3 observation > One flash seen with unaided vision ,in a pass that reached 75 degrees elevatio > in the ESE sky before dawn. This was timed at 18:31:36.2 October 8, but i would > make 0.5 seconds for reaction time. This flash was mag 0, and extremely short. > > A comment, > I cant make positional fixes of what I believe is required accuracy(say 4-6 arc minutes) under such conditions. I think I would be lucky to get 0.5 > degrees accuracy because of the lack of reference stars with naked-eye. > But the small number of flashes in a pass make it obligatory. > I cant see how school children are going to produce enough observations > to calculate air drag. > Any comments from other list members > Tony Beresford > 34.9638S, 138.633E > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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