At 15:02 27/04/00 +0930, you wrote: >At 14:07 27/04/00 , Mark Jeffrey wrote: >>I believe I made a sighting of the Russian Progress supply vehicle >>en-route to MIR last evening ( Wed April 26 09:02 UTC ) over >>Australia. But to my surprise what I saw was flashing. Looked very >>much like an aircraft strobe. Was travelling very quickly as expected >>with the lower orbit. >> >>Just hoping someone may confirm this as PROGRESS or did I >>see something else ? >No Mark you saw something else, the upper stage of the rocket >that launched the Progress. The progress was about 5 minutes later. Mark, You were lucky to have seen the Progress rocket body. It has already decayed. As I had a day off today I decided to try to observe Progress M1-2, the rocket body and Mir this morning. Mir and the Progress rocket body would be seen around 03h15m UTC and Progress M1-2 would be visible around 03h35m UTC. Unfortunately I didn't hear my alarm and when I woke up this morning the sun was already shining. I must have been very tired. Too bad.(you'll never know what satellites can do to you, they made me angry ;-) ) Greetings, Tristan Cools Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1 Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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