The return message from my subscription request asked me to send a personal introduction to the list. I am a 43 year old telecommunications technoid living and working in the Toronto area of Canada. My observing station (with accompanying living quarters, known to the rest of my family as "home") is located at the top of the Niagara escarpment at longitude 80.00 W, latitude 43.89 N, and elevation 487 metres. This location is in the Town of Caledon, North West of Toronto. I am sufficiently far outside of Metropolitan Toronto that light pollution from the city is reduced to a glow on the southern horizon. Within 1 kilometre is a disused airport with dark skies and a clear view of the horizon in every direction. I have been observing satellites seriously for about a year (and casually for many years). My particular interest is Mir, for several reasons. I have logged Mir observations for several months and I am particularly pleased with two of my log entries. I saw Discovery and Mir in close proximity at 5:30 am on February 8th during mission STS-63. I also saw Mir and Spektr at 3:50 am on May 31st this year. I keep track of visiting Progress supply ships and Soyuz crew ships but have been unlucky in seeing any of them so far. Unfortunately I was meteorologically-challenged during favourable passes of STS-71. I envy all those who reported successful sightings of that mission. I prefer naked eye observing, but have a pair of tripod mounted 16x50 binoculars available for difficult passes. I use a Tandy 386/387 laptop running David Ransom's STSOrbit Plus (v9445) and T.S. Kelso's Trakstar (v2.15) for pass predictions. I obtain my element sets from T.S.Kelso's postings to the sci.space.news newsgroup and from the shuttle elements mailing list. I have been trying to recruit an observing group in this area. If you live in the Toronto area please contact me. My E-mail address is john.corby@ambassador.com. Thank you for Seesat-l. I have learned a lot from it and read it with enthusiasm. John Corby. ______________________________________________________________________