Thanks Dan. Yeah... I guess I need a pair of those glasses. I watched the docking at 56K on my PC... lucky you! I've checked my timepiece, which is right on, and I expected it 240 to 60 with elevation almost overhead, but it was not to be for me. Thanks again for the response. Bruce Musson -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Deak [SMTP:dan.deak@sympatico.ca] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:51 PM To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com Subject: Re: Where was ISS ? Musson Bruce E wrote: > I sat out there with the scope all set, from 4:10am until 4:35am... never > saw a thing. Hello Bruce and all, I put on my special lenses to beat the cloaking device ;-) and saw the same pass you refered to culminating at 04:16:56 EDT from my location in Quebec. Maximum mag was reached before culmination at -2. It passed nearly overhead and took my first picture of a sat. Will have to wait for the film to be processed before seeing the result. From your location, the ISS did indeed pass overhead at 04:15:20 from azimuth 240 to 60. It came out of shadow at around 04:14:45 at about 53 degrees elevation. Yesterday, I saw both modules beeing 1 min 44 sec apart pass under the Moon just like in the beautiful pictures taken by Olivier Staiger (congratulations!). Zarya and Unity were the brightest at mag 0 and Zvezda was mag +1. I saw the docking live on NASA TV with my newly installed C-band satellite dish. At last, I won't have to worry about net congestion and low quality images. We could see the manoeuvring engines fire many times to slow Zarya before initial contact. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Québec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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