On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, Ed Cannon wrote: > Sue wrote: > > > I saw a very nice flying-in-tandem pass of the pair a > > little earlier this evening. ... Both appeared > > to be about the same brightness, but thin and patchy > > clouds probably skewed that. > > Two neighbors and I were very lucky to be able to see the > same pass. The sky was mostly cloudy from my apartment, > several km SSE of Sue's location. After the satellites > disappeared, I looked back toward the Moon and was no > longer able to see it! The two orbiters also appeared to From San Antonio I saw the same pass. For once it seems SA had fewer clouds than Austin had. I first spotted the pair as the came from behind the tree. They had about a 4 degree separation at that point. After passing through a thin cloud -- "winking" while doing so -- they gradually increased in brightness and separation, both reaching about -2 and separated by 7-8 degrees. They went into shadow a little after culmination about the time they would have been hidden by a thicker cloud. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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