Thanks Bob......that explains why there's no gap then ! What we are seeing must be the panels of Zvezda .........ATV at mag 2 would have been impossible to see through the thin high cloud. Hopefully things on the west coast here will improve over the next few evenings ! John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Christy" <rdc@zarya.info> To: "'John Locker'" <john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:17 PM Subject: RE: ATV/ISS confounded by cloud.........again ! > Viewed from Lincoln, UK aroung 20:30 UTC by a group of us after a meeting > of > the local Astronomical Society - the gap was extremely noticeable! > > The ATV was 15-20s ahead of ISS at magnitude 2. ISS reached about mag -2 > at > the start of eclipse entry. > > ATV will now move behind the ISS to a distance of 39 km before the first > docking attempt March 3: > http://webservices.esa.int/blog/blog/1/ > > Bob Christy > 53.2 deg North > 0.6 deg West > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: John Locker [mailto:john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk] >> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:53 PM >> To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org........... > >> Subject: ATV/ISS confounded by cloud.........again ! >> > .........I managed a few grainy frames at different points in the pass, > the > gap between ATV and Zvezda was not that noticeable............. > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.3/1354 - Release Date: > 01/04/2008 > 05:38 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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