STS-88 / ISS

Ralph McConahy (rmcconahy@earthlink.net)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 06:34:13 -0800

Got my first (and only) chance to see STS-88 this morning. The sky was clear
but dawn had already broken. ISS followed STS-88 by exactly 99 seconds. The
STS track was about 0.5 degrees below the mag +2 star UMa-Beta, ISS
"touched" the same star. In relationship to one another, both sats were
about the same brightness when they passed UMa-Beta--I'd estimate between
mag 0 and -1.

  Ralph McConahy
  34.8829N  117.0064W  670m