on saturday 18 june 2005 CDT I watched a rare bright pass of cosmos 807 rocket. although heavens-above showed its brightness to be magnitude 2.4, I feel it was much brighter (it seemed as I watched it that I had caught sight of mir once again, a blast from the past.) I'd have to estimate its brightness to have been at least 0.5 if not 0.0. (normally cosmos 807 rocket is fairly dim, according to HA. I scrolled back through the passes and found it only became so bright about twice in the past year!) 38.7054N, 90.3087W was the location, elevation 171M. I was at an open house at the UMSL observatory. please follow this link for the details: http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetails.asp?SatID=8745&lat=38.7053663%20&lng=-90.308650&alt=173&loc=&TZ=CST&Date=38522.1006929038 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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