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After seeing the MER-B launch live on CNN (Thank you, CNN!),
Mike McCants with Sue Worden and me as passengers went west
of Austin.  We had moderately good luck with the weather.  
The Delta second stage was visible without magnification for 
much of its arc before entering eclipse.  None of us saw any 
sign of the depletion burn, which I believe was still in 
eclipse when it occurred.  Around 5:30 UTC Mike located the
spacecraft with the 8-inch (200mm) scope.  But there began 
to be some cloud interference, and it was of course rapidly 
moving away, so after a few minutes it got away.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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