Hello again, John!
I gladly downloaded the data and found some interesting things even in AMSAT's data.
In the 2014 file, AO-73 is identified as object #39444U starting January 16, 2014 and after.
In the same 2014 file, AO-73 is identified as object #39445U on January 9, 2014 and prior.
In the 2013 file, there is some discussion about the actual object number of AO-73 at first. It changes a few times, and settles on 39445.
I know that when a new spacecraft appears it may take a while for the details to settle.
I thought it was interesting and a reminder to check first the object number. :)
73!
-- bag
Bryan KL7CN/W6
On Apr 7, 2015, at 11:35, Bryan Green bryan@kl7cn.net wrote:
Thanks very much, John! I'm grateful for the confirmation!
-- bag
On Apr 7, 2015, at 11:27, John Magliacane via AMSAT-BB amsat-bb@amsat.org wrote:
Hi Bryan.
Glad to hear you found the source of the problem.
Just as a further confirmation, AMSAT-NA's 2-line elements issued on January 29, 2015 yielded the following predictions for AO-73 (as object number 39444) at your QTH, and match your observations exactly:
predict -t ao-73.keps -q KL7CN_W6-CM98fn.qth -p AO-73 `date -u +"%s" --date="2015-01-29 05:00:00"`
1422508701 Thu 29Jan15 05:18:21 0 160 104 15 113 2993 6286 1422508790 Thu 29Jan15 05:19:50 6 158 108 20 114 2385 6286 1422508879 Thu 29Jan15 05:21:19 15 156 112 25 115 1789 6286 1422508966 Thu 29Jan15 05:22:46 28 150 116 31 116 1244 6286 1422509046 Thu 29Jan15 05:24:06 51 134 120 35 118 847 6286 1422509104 Thu 29Jan15 05:25:04 68 79 122 39 119 728 6286 1422509140 Thu 29Jan15 05:25:40 61 33 124 41 119 767 6286 1422509185 Thu 29Jan15 05:26:25 45 10 126 44 120 924 6286 1422509251 Thu 29Jan15 05:27:31 28 360 129 48 122 1268 6286 1422509331 Thu 29Jan15 05:28:51 15 355 132 53 124 1773 6286 1422509418 Thu 29Jan15 05:30:18 7 353 136 58 126 2355 6286 1422509508 Thu 29Jan15 05:31:48 1 351 140 63 129 2965 6286 1422509517 Thu 29Jan15 05:31:57 0 351 140 63 130 3028 6286
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73, de John, KD2BD
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