very nice triple pass

From: Ed Cannon (edcannonsat@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2008 - 03:27:37 UTC

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    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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