Dale, I think I live about 20-25 miles SE of you and I observed the same pass. At my location Mir dimmed slightly, but did not fade to anywhere near invisibility, and then brightened, as you mentioned, before totally fading away. Wonder if it was an Iridium flare-like situation off one of the many solar panels and the differing geometry from our different locations caused the difference in observations. Daryl 47.45N, 122.15W, 143m ps - We are going to pay for our wonderful (clear) skies this winter next summer with water rationing, I'll bet. In a message dated 2/25/01 7:34:56 PM Pacific Standard Time, direland@drdale.com writes: > Hi > I had an interesting Mir observation a couple minutes ago as Mir entered the > Earth's shadow at 3:23UT Feb 26 over Seattle it faded > normally to near invisibility then regained brightness to mag 1 for about 2 > seconds before disappearing. Not sure what could have > caused this. > Dale > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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