Due to employment upheavals and other complications I ended
up on the UT Austin campus with the clock on the UT tower
my only timepiece. The sky was partly cloudy. But even
so, I had the pleasure of seeing ATV as well as both ISS
and STS-123 flying along as a nice doublet, if somewhat far
apart. I counted to 1,024 (i.e., very roughly 24 seconds)
between when ISS and STS-123 passed Sirius. As STS-123
passed that star it flared to at least -2, something I
don't remember seeing from a Space Shuttle before.
ATV/Jules Verne was very comparable to Saturn in brightness
for much of its pass. I noticed a young student watching
them and went over to say hello. He was a student who has
a relative who works at NASA and another who is a physics
major. So he was actually out there looking for them. At
least two local TV stations report the pass with video,
although both of the videos were confusing. My thanks to
Mike McCants for his predictions that I grabbed from his
website.
Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
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