My, what a morning for observations! Observed the STS/ISS make an early morning overhead pass starting out bright white at around mag. -4 in the SW and slowly diminishing in brightness as it traveled to the NE. I retired last night after watching the beginning of the EVA via NASA TV on the internet and got up early to observe and see the end of the successful EVA with the airlock permanently installed. Of course, Saturn, Venus and Aldebaran looked fabulous together in the east. Later, just as twilight was coming on, I was able to view Jupiter and Mercury (with binocs) close together just above the ENE tree line. I haven't viewed Mercury in a long time. And as icing on the cake I observed an apparent interception of the ISS/shuttle by a south bound satellite (maybe an Iridium) when slightly pass maximum elevation at 08:30:30 UTC. I still have to ID that sat. I think that about covers it;-) Jeff 38.51N/ 76.76W ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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