I was watching a Leonid meteor flash by in a movie available at the URL below when I noticed what appears to be a satellite slowing moving along in the middle portion of the picture. The meteor slashes right across the satellite. Neat! See: http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/leonid-satellite.mov The home URL is http://leonid.arc.nasa.gov/98images.html Another topic.... The sky finally cleared here and I checked to see what might be visible tonight. I noticed that Starshine-3 was to get very close to the star Altair. In fact, in the Heavens-above chart I could not tell that there was any separation between the two at 18:33:34. Determined to see something of Starshine, I set up my Celestron 5" scope using a 40 mm eyepiece on Altair. When the time came I saw nothing. The moon was bright and I was in town. Obviously its intrinsic brightness is low. Of well. Happy New Year! Tom Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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