Re: Chandra IPS-1 Burn Correction

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In a message dated 7/24/99 8:06:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, kc4yer@amsat.org 
writes:

> Actually it's at apogee (72030.56 km.) so it will be above the horizon in
>  most of Europe, all of Africa and South America, and much of Eastern North
>  America.  Basically if you're in darkness at 01:11 UT it will be above your
>  horizon and potentially visible.  Spacecraft will be illuminated at that
>  time.

>From the Baltimore-Washington Area it will be between Vega and Altair.   I 
managed to observe EGP last evening at 01:17 UTC so it should be reasonably 
dark at that time.

Cheers
Don Gardner  39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL
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