Hi all, Mir16609@aol.com wrote: > 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 I witnessed the same phenomenon but saw only one flare at around 23:38:20 UT at mag -5 and with a blueish color. It was brief but impressive. Astronauts reported the Destiny module was quite bright under sunshine. At the time of the pass, the shuttle was returning from a maneuvering attitude and was flying with its tail toward the ground and the payload bay facing the sun. Shuttle was 3 minutes 43 seconds behind ISS. Very nice sight. Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 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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