--- On Fri, 30 Jan 1998 19:13:37 -0800 Mark Hanning-Lee <markhl@prodigy.net> wrote in part: >I then took away my binoculars just in time to see (perhaps) Soyuz >trailing it by some 8 deg at a steady magnitude 0-1 & same color! They >faded at about the same position as Endeavour. Based on what I saw this evening, I believe you saw the Progress M-37 trailing about 8 seconds behind Mir and not Soyuz TM-27. It supposedly was about 25 minutes behind Mir but the clouds closed in to prevent my observation. That was the brightest Progress I've seen, about mag 2. >Great fun. Yes! >Trivia question: why is this Shuttle called Endeavour and not the US >spelling Endeavor? This shuttle was named after the first ship captained by James Cook, "British" explorer, navigator and astronomer. See http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/endeavour.html for details. Jeff Hunt <jhunt@radix.net> (homepage) http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8703