On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Sue Worden wrote: > We had one final good GRO pass here tonight (see elset and predictions > from Ed Cannon appended below). Near the end of the pass, GRO flared > to about magnitude -0.5 then suddenly winked out when it entered shadow. > That was a coincidence, of course, but a fitting good-bye nevertheless... I witnessed the same pass. I saw it steady at +2 then slowly fade to invisibility, which caught me by surprise since I wasn't expecting shadow entry until well after culmination. But it brightened again, getting up to +1 before disappearing for good. So I can consider that it made a slow wink at me. Later I figured the fade out must have been due to unseen thin clouds as clouds had already begun invading the sky. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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