Kevin has seen exactly what I saw when the ISS Passed, see the report I submitted for more details... However from my location it was a tad to the west (moving north) more and a little lower than the Station Pass. Regards, Ted A. Nichols II ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Mangis" <kmangis00@yahoo.com> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 2:02 AM Subject: Interesting ISS pass > I wasn't sure whether it would be dark enough to see tonight's Shuttle > launch from the Washington, DC area (5:20pm local time), but it turned > out the Shuttle was easy to spot. After it had crossed from south to > east, the Shuttle vanished all at once in an instant, which was a neat > effect (I assume this was the moment of main engine shutdown). > > About 1 hour later, I saw an interesting pass of the ISS: As the ISS > was first visible in the southwest (perhaps 10 degrees above the > horizon), I saw what looked like an Iridium flare just above it. The > flare was approximately the same brightness as the ISS (I would guess 0 > magnitude), lasted about 5 seconds, and was moving from south to north > just in front of the ISS. After the flare died out I could no longer > see this satellite (all of this was unaided eye). This occurred at > approximately 23:20 UTC. Heavens-above did not predict this flare -- > was it indeed an Iridium or was it some other satellite? > > - Kevin Mangis > 38.87N, 77.31W > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > >
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