At 05:47 8/06/99 , Hedgepet@stihl.de wrote: >Hello everyone, > >SatSpy 3.0 predicts a decent pass almost directly overhead of my location >tonight (though it is scheduled to rise in the West only 19 minutes after >sundown local time). > >Here's wishing everyone dark skies and mild temperatures. > >Troy >36.7653N 76.2178W, 3.7m >Chesapeake, Virginia, USA Troy, Quicksat indicates a maximum brightness of mag 11.3, at a range of 1150Km. I think this is probably best range you are going to get. The brightness ties in with the standard magnitude quoted in the molczan file, and it size. I doubt whether any telescope would show anything this faint 19 minutes after sundown. In a dark sky use of at least an 8-inch scope as Ron Lee reports would be almost mandatory. Tony Beresford >