Hi Leo, Congratulations! Most of Germany was outclouded. At my place no chance too... :-( Best regards, Gunnar Glitscher, Darmstadt, Germany 49.85N 8.65E Leo Barhorst schrieb am 06.06.2002: >Just saw the launch of Endeavour on NASA-TV via Internet. >At about 18 minutes after launch I got outside and was lucky that >the sky had broken a bit. few stars could be seen. >At 21:44 UT I saw low on the western horizon a brillant light in >between some clouds. >After emerging from this cloud I saw the shuttle and about half a >degree lower the External Tank. >STS-111 was about mag -4, as bright as Venus. The ET was >dark orange and about mag 2. After about 30 sec the ET became >brighter and got to mag -1. The both of them passed just under >Spica (Alpha Virgo). >A beautifull sight the very bright white dot of Endeavour and the >somewhat dimmer bright orange dot of the ET moving close >together. >The ET stayed several seconds that bright, dimmed to about mag 4 >again and got again brighter to about mag 1 and then dimmed >gradually until disappearing in the earth's shadow. Estimated period >about 10 seconds. Haven't seen these brightness variations with ET's. >Was is slowly tumbling? >Several seconds later the shuttle also faded away. > >It was worth it staying up late to see the launch and the nice pass >of the >two sats. Had they launched on time several days ago they would have >been in shadow while passing over here. > > >Greetings and clear, dark skies >Leo Barhorst Medemblik >52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL >http://www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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