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If you missed Comet McNaught

drt on Feb 28 2007 | Filed under: Astronomy, Astrophotography, Satellite Tracking

Greg Roberts just alerted the Sea-sat readers this morning about this site. I went to take a quick look and I thought it’s another “need to visit” site for those who would like to get the latest Astronomical and Satellite Tracking related info from down under in South Africa. Not only that, if you have [...]

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What is this?

drt on Feb 23 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking

It all started with a forwarded message to the Sea-sat L list, and the responses kept growing including this one, where Dr. Tony Phillips wrote:
The explosion photographed last night by Gordon Garradd and others in  Australia (see http://spaceweather.com/  for several photos) has been tentatively identified by Jon P. Boers of the Air Force Space Surveillance System [...]

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First trial to catch the ISS

drt on Feb 11 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking

I was waiting for today’s pass of ISS using Heavens-above data shown below and I took this picture of Venus. No, actually I really don’t know what is the name of this planet. It was so bright, I guess somewhere around -0.2, since it was a little bit less dimmer than ISS tonight which according to Heavens-above was at -0.2. However from the [...]

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