Hi all, Well, earlier today I thought it was all lost given the weather, but much to my surprise I did get a brief glimpse of the Shuttle Endeavour STS-118(plus ISS 3 minutes earlier) through small gaps in flying cloud cover. A mere 30 minutes earlier it was still completely clouded. It made a near-zenith pass here at 21:37 UT at 75 degree elevation, just south of Vega. That was the moment I actually saw it, for about 20 seconds before it entered behind clouds again. It was, for as far as I could judge in this broken cloud cover, about mag. 0, as bright as Vega. Due to the flying clouds any attempt at photography was futile, but I am happy to have seen it at all as this evening was the only visibility opportunity for my location and I really thought it would be lost. - Marco :-) ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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