I was away for a few days...
mccants quicksat is not standard magnitude
as I understand it, he has other apps, his seesat
based on hirose app, that
match Guide8 mag prediction within +/- 0.1
and which I've always found to closely match what
I see. I'm not aware that Guide8 uses quicksat mags??
now I'm confused.
last time I check, molczan mags were nearly identical
to the Guide mags.

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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:15:37 -0400
From: Bill J Gray <pluto@...>
Subject: Re: Satellite Magnitudes

Hi John,

I think we have a likely culprit as to why the satellite magnitudes
might differ. Kevin Fetter kindly mentioned a page describing how the
absolute magnitudes of satellites are computed:

http://www.satobs.org/brite.html

which describes a difference in the magnitudes from the Molczan and
Quicksat files (see text below, copied from above URL). It looks as
if I should just knock the Quicksat magnitudes down (fainter) by 1.5.
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