[Search] Lacrosse Satellite

"Jens Averbeck" wrote:

Hi,

a Hobby-Astronom at
http://www.astrotreff.de/topic.asp?T...4&whichpage=1#
(sorry its a German-Site)
is searching for detailed Images of the Lacrosse Satellites.

If anyone has some good pictures of those we would be glad to see them.

The reason why he needs those pictures: He wants to track and Photograph
those Satellites

There aren't any pictures of the Lacrosse/Onyx satellites, at least not
that are available to the public.

If he wants to track the five Lacrosse satellites, he doesn't need to
know what they look like. Heavens-above.com will tell you where
to look for them. During a good pass they're as bright as the second
magnitude, which makes them hard to miss.

He can ask for more information on sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe.
That group isn't quite moribund, and Ted Molczan will answer any
question you have about observing the Lacrosses.

--Bill Thompson

Am Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:04:12 +0000 schrieb William R Thompson:

"Jens Averbeck" wrote:

Hi,

a Hobby-Astronom at
http://www.astrotreff.de/topic.asp?T...4&whichpage=1# (sorry
its a German-Site)
is searching for detailed Images of the Lacrosse Satellites.

If anyone has some good pictures of those we would be glad to see them.

The reason why he needs those pictures: He wants to track and
Photograph those Satellites

There aren't any pictures of the Lacrosse/Onyx satellites, at least not
that are available to the public.

If he wants to track the five Lacrosse satellites, he doesn't need to
know what they look like. Heavens-above.com will tell you where to look
for them. During a good pass they're as bright as the second magnitude,
which makes them hard to miss.

He can ask for more information on sci.astro.satellites.visual-observe.
That group isn't quite moribund, and Ted Molczan will answer any
question you have about observing the Lacrosses.

--Bill Thompson

Hi Bill,

thanks for the info about that other Newsgroup and Heavens-above.com
(didnt know it has tracking infos about those Sat).

Regards

Jens

"Jens Averbeck" wrote:

thanks for the info about that other Newsgroup and Heavens-above.com
(didn't know it has tracking infos about those Sat).

You're welcome. Heavens-above can give you predictions on almost
every satellite in low earth orbit. Go to their main page, click on
the "select a satellite" line under the Satellites heading. Then enter
Lacrosse% in the "satellite name" box. You'll get predictions for
the four Lacrosses still in orbit.

I'm not sure how much detail anyone could see through a telescope.
It's thought that Lacrosses use very large solar panels to power their
radars. The panels might shadow or otherwise hide whatever antennae
they carry.

--Bill Thompson