Good evening all ! Lucille and I watched a nice double star passing by between 23:02 and 23:04 UTC. The ISS/STS-116 pair slowly rised in the southwest to make an almost overhead pass but faded into shadow when reaching about 65 degree elevation. ISS was seen first at mag -2 and Discovery was trailing behind at mag 0. The separation between the two grew larger and larger to reach about 1/4 or 1/3 degree at shadow entry. Both objects were easy to separate at 1x about 1 minute before shadow entry. A nice show worth rushing to get home on time ! Dan -- Daniel Deak Webmestre, site Obsat Pompier, municipalite de L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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