At 13:19 26/02/01 -0500, you wrote: >On Saturday 24 February 2001 at about 18:20 UTC Mir and ISS were seen >*simultaneously* in several parts of France and in Belgium. Weather in >southern France was better than further north, so most observations >were made in the south. > >As far as I know, this was the first such encounter (and also the last) Salyut 7(another space station) and Mir have been in orbit at the same time and they have been co-planar for a while.(remember the Soyuz T15 mission from Mir to Salyut 7 and back). This would have made them both visible at the same time. Did anyone observe this in 1986 ? Greetings, Tristan Cools tcools@village.uunet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1 Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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