Re: ISS magnitude surge

From: Daniel Deak (dan.deak@sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Dec 14 2001 - 19:00:14 EST

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    James wrote:
    > 
    > Early this evening I observed an unbelievably bright surge in magnitude of
    > the ISS - 30 seconds before entering the Earth's shadow.
    
    I've observed many passes this week and this phenomenon was seen all times the
    ISS stack was low to the northeast right after sunset and just before shadow
    entry. Magnitude easily reached -5 or better.
    
    Dan
    
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    Daniel Deak
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    L'Avenir, Quebec
    
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