(C) Tsuyoshi Watanabe Ebina City, Kanagawa Japan 1:24:23-1:24:25JST, 12 Dec 2012
Takahashi e160, Diameter short focus telescope 16cm (F=530mm, F3.3)
Nikon D800E, ISO12800, 2 seconds exposure

A test of the FITSAT-1 LED optical beacon that took place on December 11 GMT over Japan was successful.

On December 13 at 22:10:30 GMT FITSAT-1 will be using its optical LED beacon to flash a message in Morse Code over the British Isles and Europe which, cloud permitting, should be visible using binoculars. Further information is at http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=11815

The FITSAT-1 CubeSat was developed by students at the Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT) in Japan. As well as the optical LED experiment the satellite carries several amateur radio payloads: a CW beacon on 437.250 MHz, a telemetry beacon on 437.445 MHz and a high-speed data downlink on 5840.0 MHz.

Mineo Wakita JE9PEL posted these links on the AMSAT Bulletin Board:
[HP]
http://www.fit.ac.jp/~tanaka/fitsat.shtml
http://turing.cs.fit.ac.jp/~fitsat/led_world.html

[Guide]
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/index.html
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/obs.html

[11 Dec 2012]
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/121211_news.html
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/images/121211_m.jpg

[12 Dec 2012]
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/121212_news.html
http://www.jinkou-eisei.jp/FITSAT/images/121212_watanabe.jpg

[Supplement]
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/hamradio/je9pel/fitsatle.htm

FITSAT-1 Flight Model

Further information and pictures of FITSAT-1 and the other CubeSats deployed from the ISS on October 4, 2012 is at http://www.uk.amsat.org/?page_id=10967

First picture from FITSAT-1 on 5840.0 MHz http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=11151

FITSAT-1 received with 1/4 wave antenna and FUNcube Dongle SDR http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10873

FITSAT-1 October Update http://www.uk.amsat.org/?p=10701