Our good old friend Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A) did it's disappearance trick again when it left mag 2 within about 3 seconds at around 19:53:50 UTC (20-AUG-07). It actually happened at the end of a 15 second exposure I did and it does show up on the picture. Once I have a good night's rest I'll correlate the position on the photo with the calculated one and I should be able to give a more accurate timing of the event. (A second picture I took shortly afterwards does not show any track.) Half an hour before that I watched first the ISS (at 19:24:38 UT; 20-AUG-07) and then Endeavour (at 19:25:00 UT) pass within two radii of Jupiter. Had I been about 1 km further south I might have seen an occultation! But the close miss also looked nice. Yesterday's ISS and Shuttle elements by Spacetrack as well as the ones posted by JSC (and projected for today) had shown significant disagreements for today's Jupiter-pass between each other and also with regard to the actually observed pass today. (Yesterday Spacetrack would have seen the Shuttle leading while JSC saw it trailing.) But the latest elements I just downloaded from either site do agree with each other as well with my actual observation. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany 49.8822N, 8.6558 E ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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