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Rosetta 2mar2005
This is the assemblation of 150 30-seconds images of the recent earth fly-by
of the Rosetta ESA-spacecraft. The images were made in the night of 2nd
march 2005 from 00h01m to 01h25m UT.

At about 1/5 of the trace, i.e.about at 00h20m UT one can
evidently see a brightness increase of the satellite, maybe due to a more
favourable reflection of the sunlight. The roughly brightness of the
spacecraft was about 17mag.

Image dimensions: 16x13 arcmin.
Orientation: East is left, North is up.
Telescope: 40cm f/4 +CCD.
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Filename:Rosetta_02mar2005.gif
Album name:sposetti / Artificial Satellites
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Date added:Dec 06, 2005
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