Hi all -
I just observed a 31-degree high pass of STS-99, and tracked it
with a 12.5-inch reflector at 63x. I was clearly a double object
- but no sign of a boom between the objects! The radar was on
the north side of the shuttle, and about a magnitude fainter.
Overall, both ojects were magnitude +0.5 to the naked eye.
Observing conditions weren't the greatest, with lousy seeing
being the probable reason I couldn't see the connecting boom.
However, conditions were much better than the snowstorm of the
previous two nights! Despite the seeing, it was easier to see
this object as double than it has been for the shuttle docked to
the Mir as double.
cheers, Rich Keen
Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado, USA (39.877N, 105.391W, elev 2728m)
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