Saw what I believe was probably 32848 the Soyuz R/B zipping across the sky tonight on an overhead southwest to northeast shadow entry pass. Timed at 06:16:50, owing to the fact that it was seen though a gap in the cloud no precise observations possible - it would have been useful but was not practicable to time the shadow entry. Mag was around 1, only one object seen. I don't think the R/B will be up there for long. Nice to see another one of these, always worth looking at where possible after a Progress or Soyuz TMA launch. And a reasonably high possibility that we will see one of these R/Bs decay round here one day though in this case it was still too high for that to occur (around 220 km.) Was unable to see the pass of ISS around half an hour earlier because (a) I was on a bus (b) cloud was quite thick at that time anyway- I rushed home in time to get set up for the Progress/Soyuz pass. Similarly was unable to observe the next pass of ISS as I was on a bus again and the subsequent Progress and Soyuz R/B passes would have been completely in shadow. Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 174.948E 41.261S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:02 AM Subject: progress launched > The progress spacecraft was launched a short time ago. > > Docking to occur, around 21:30 UTC ( May 16 ) Nasa says. > > Kevin > > > __________________________________________________________________ > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! > > http://www.flickr.com/gift/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > __________ NOD32 3095 (20080513) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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