At 09:59 22/07/01 , Edward S Light wrote: >Dear List members > >The shuttle is scheduled to undock from ISS at 04:54 UTC (22 July), >and there is a pass visible from here about 1.5 hours later. Does >anyone know how far apart the two might be at that time? At a >range of almost 600 km, might they be visible as separate objects >in, say, 10x50 binoculars? Ed, During the hour long flyaround Up to 05:54 utthe 150meter separation at 600Km corresponds to about 1 arc minute, just separable in 10x50s, I think they back of to 20Km by your sighting time, and then the angular sep. would be 2 degrees, Which is of course easy naked eye. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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