Paul Maley writes: >To respond to Bill Bard's note: >I verified moments ago that indeed 4 cargo bay lights were on between 1100 >and 1205 GMT today, in addition to the cabin lights. So the overall >brightness of the orbiter was no doubt due to the cargo bay illumination. It >is up to the crew's discretion as to when to turn these lights on and off. >The SFU grapple is now scheduled to occur very close to the nominal plan. This from Gary Emerson of Mt. Thoridin, Colorado, message dated: 1993 Dec 07. Last Sat. morning I was able to observe the shuttle in darkness because they had the lights on in the payload bay. The floodlit payload bay is about 8th magnitude at a range of 1500 km.