-----Original Message----- From: Jeff Hunt [mailto:jeff_satobserve@worldnet.att.net] >My, what a morning for observations! You said it, friend. >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. So did I. It was quite dim, crossing the southern sky and passing very near to Saturn, Venus and Aldebaran. I was taking pictures with a 300mm lens. The pass was centered at about 0830 UT. >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. I taped the whole EVA off my computer and am watching it now. For the evening until 1 AM I was observing at David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill. I got to look at M57 through the 2-meter scope. The central star was blinking in and out. There were six other stars in the field easily visible, around 12th or 13th mag. I got to borrow a guy's SCT to get some prime focus shots of Comet LINEAR A2. M13, Albireo and Mizar were other targets. There was a mag -1 Iridium which we timed perfectly. And a few telescopic sats. And UARS, which was quite bright. >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. Mercury was super in the evening earlier in the spring. I got pictures of the Moon, Saturn, Venus, Aldebaran, Jupiter and Mercury with the 300mm lens, so those shots are about context rather than close-up. And one with the ISS/Shuttle crossing the field. Cheers Eric Briggs, 44N 79W ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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