RE: Bright Moon, Dim Shuttle
Richard Baldridge (RBaldridge@Filss.com)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:02:20 -0800
I've had the same problem from the San Francisco Bay Area. I've NEVER seen
the Shuttle this dim. However, I did spot it last night with 7x50s, (never
naked eye) ON time and ON track (from the Rev42 elements) at magnitude +5 --
barely naked-eye with the full moon out.
This Mission has made me the goat several times already when I posted pass
predictions to several dozen people in my astronomy club and they didn't see
a thing. This forced me to check and re-check my predictions and program
configuration files (Skymap, STSPlus and Quicksat). They're right, so have
faith! Keep looking!
Rick Baldridge
Campbell, CA.
rbaldridge@filss.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jake Rees [SMTP:jrburca@worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 10:28 AM
> To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com
> Subject: Re: Bright Moon, Dim Shuttle
>
>
> From southern California, the HST-STS103 docked pair was to have
> culminated
> at 39 degrees at 18:22 PST Dec. 22 (02:22 UTC Dec.23). I looked but never
> saw it at all even after scanning around with 7x50 binoculars. The sky
> was
> very clear with a considerable number of stars visible even with the full
> moon. I'm not the most expert observer but neither am I a total klutz.
> I've seen plenty of satellites. A very stealthy mission if you ask me!
> Maybe the DOD should be taking notes.
>
> -- Jake Rees
> Burbank, California
>
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