Mir + TM-23
Bruno Tilgner (100533.2016@CompuServe.COM)
18 Aug 96 16:56:07 EDT
On 17.08.96 Tristan Cools (tcools@nic.INbe.net) wrote:
>Sunday aug 19, Progress M32 will undock from Mir at 18h08m UT BUT WILL STAY
>IN ORBIT UNTILL SEPT 3 when it will dock again with Mir to correct its
>orbit. There are nice opportunities to observe this at my location and the
Actually, this should read Progress TM-23. Tonight, 18.08.96 at 20:27 UT, I saw
Mir followed by a second, less bright object, about 10 seconds later, along
the same trajectory.
I was actually waiting for TM-24 which should fly BEFORE Mir, but I didn't
see it. So this must have been TM-23.
An easy, naked-eye object, even in the heavily light-polluted sky of the
Paris suburbs.
If this was indeed TM-23 it should be visible the coming days as well.
Bruno Tilgner