Hello Daniel, I'm glad you mentionned it, I was considering changing my lenses! I saw this pass from Quebec City. It looked to me as a small round and not so bright cloud when the shuttle appeared over the northwestern horizon. Afterwards it looked like the trail we are use to see following jet airplanes but it was really faint in Quebec City's light polluted sky, the moon was also stealing a good part of the show. Nevertheless I figured out that the trail was somewhat around 10 degrees in length at maximum. It was almost invisible during the descending portion of the pass. I just wish I was at home in a less light polluted sky with my binoculars. Anyway I'm glad to have seen this sight once in my life. Clément Drolet Beaumont, Qc -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Deak <dan.deak@sympatico.ca> To: SeeSat <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Date: 15 février, 2000 21:57 Subject: Endeavour water dump ? >Hi everybody, > >Tonight (Feb. 15, local) there was a beautiful Shuttle pass culminating at >23:11 UTC at 45 deg. elevation to the northeast. Its magnitude reached >-3 but what surprised me was that a tail of something was coming out of >the Shuttle northward, about 50 to 60 degrees upward. It was about a >half degree in length. > >While viewed head on when it was ascending, it looked straight. But when >it passed in front of me, I could clearly see the cloud was being deflected >and trailing behind for a few degrees. It lasted for all of the pass. >Could it be a water dump ??? > >It was a great sight ! > >Cheers, > >Dan > >-- >Daniel Deak >Drummondville, Québec > >COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 > >E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 >Site en francais sur les satellites: >French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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