from the washington post, july 16th: "...If all goes as well as the space shuttle's current flight, at the end of 2007 the station will have redesigned air-conditioning and electrical systems, a new docking port for the shuttle and four sets of solar arrays instead of one, giving the station a rotating span an acre in size to draw power from the sun." "You can see it now, when it goes over at night," said Paul Hill, the mission's lead flight director. "But with the new arrays, the station will become the first man-made object in orbit that you can see with the naked eye during daylight." obviously, mr. hill hasn't seen a daytime iridium flare; this aside, is there any credence to what he has stated, that the station will be visible during daylight passes? I doubt the addition of the new arrays and modules will change the station's intrinsic brightness by too much, and I'd think in order to be visible during daylight the brightness would need to reach at least -5 or perhaps -6? clear skies! stephan szyman chicago IL USA 41.6840N, 87.7000W; 188 msl ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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