Hello everyone, Endeavour made a zenith pass as viewed from Drummondville in Quebec at 22:44 UTC on Feb. 17. I watched with my 20x80 and all I could distinguish was an elongated white object, definitely not a dot. I've had some problems with my eyes that prevent me from resolving close star-like objects, they appear surrounded by spikes. But an other satellite observer, Albert Cote, living nearby clearly saw the radar at the end of the mast separated from the shuttle. It was fainter but the mast itself was not visible. He was using his 11x80 binoculars. What helped to see this was the blue background sky. It it would have been totally dark, maybe the shuttle itself would have been too bright, making it more difficult to separate the mast antenna. Since he's not registered to SeeSat-L, he didn't know what to expect while observing the Shuttle. Minimum range was 245 km and it was seen only 25 minutes after sunset. Starshine 1 was negative obs because of evening twilight, 7 minutes before Endeavour's pass. 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
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