Obs Dec 20/21 Thin clouds and haze in the west; very cold wind, -4 C. While waiting for ISS to pass I saw an object in the same trajactory. It was leading ISS by 4 min 51,88 sec; timed on passing between Jupiter and Saturn. I presume it was the free flying Progress, 2000- 64 A? The colour of ISS was orange!and it was S, -1. 00- 64 A 00-12-20 17:02:39.10LB S, 4 63- 30 A 00-12-21 06:15:35 LB 127.4 0.5 2 63.7 AA, 6-i, P=26.0+37.7 65- 65 C 00-12-21 05:34:50 LB 50.0 0.2 10 5.00 'FFFF-'F, 5-5-4-4-inv 78- 96 A 00-12-21 04:51:20 LB 73.7 0.5 6 12.3 AA, 4->i 83- 22 A 00-12-21 05:20:03 LB 35.4 0.2 10 3.54 AA, 5->i 87- 11 A 00-12-21 04:44 LB S, 4 87- 11 A 00-12-21 06:25 LB S, 4 87- 18 A 00-12-20 18:39:57 LB 122.8 0.2 8 15.35 AA, 4->i, 1 sm, F, 2 87-101 A 00-12-21 06:22 LB S, 5 88- 62 B 00-12-21 04:54:55 LB 132.4 0.5 4 33.1 AA, 5->7 89- 89 A 00-12-21 05:18 LB slowly var, 7->i 90- 81 T 00-12-21 06:11 LB almost S, 6 91- 19 B 00-12-20 17:14:30 LB 131.8 0.5 5 26.4 AA, 5->i 91- 19 B 00-12-21 04:49:22 LB 160.0 0.5 6 26.7 AA, 5->7 92- 73 B 00-12-21 06:31:25 LB 150.4 1.0 1 150 MM, 5->7 93- 36 B 00-12-21 06:01 LB S, 5 95- 12 B 00-12-21 05:44 LB almost S, 6 97- 17 B 00-12-21 04:39 LB almost S, 4 99- 8 D 00-12-20 18:24 LB S, 4 99- 41 E 00-12-21 04:47 LB S, 5 Obs Dec 21 With just Venus, Jupiter and Saturn visible, ISS made a nice pass at 16:01 UT. No orange colour was noted, mag -1. One orbit later at 17:39 the orange colour was notable, mag -2. The progress, 2000- 64 A, was leading ISS by 3 min 16.22 sec, timed on passing between Alpha and Beta Cassiopeia. Mag 2; while becoming visible in the west it flared to mag -2 just above Sagitta. 00- 64 A 00-12-21 17:35:45.16LB S, 2, 1 fl -1 70-103 A 00-12-21 17:56 LB S, 6 72- 89 A 00-12-21 17:02:00 LB 50.1 0.5 1 50.1 AA, 4->i, P=31.97+18.14 74- 1 B 00-12-21 17:08 LB S, 6 74- 48 B 00-12-21 17:46 LB S, 6 78-109 J 00-12-21 17:27 LB S, 7 82- 3 B 00-12-21 16:33 LB almost S, 6 83- 22 A 00-12-21 16:46:35 LB 91.9 0.2 20 4.60 fF, 4(2)->i 1044 obs in 2000 10980 obs in PPAS Greetings and clear, dark skies...... Merry Christmas to you all Leo Barhorst ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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