Visibllity was as bad as it gets short of being overcast. Limiting mag was about +1.5. Both the ISS and Atlantis rose in the WSW, passed nearly directly overhead and descended in the NE. The brightness of the ISS was about zero - somewhere between Jupiter and Saturn for most of the pass. Atlantis was somewhat brighter - about -1 with occasional flares to -2.5. One flare occurrd as it passed about 10 deg left of Venus (235Az, 30el) at 23:35:50 UTC. The other occurred at 23:37:20 just as it went north of Capella. There is a report from Reuters about an expedition to see the Mir's reentry: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010208/sc/space_mir_dc_2.html Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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