In a message dated 11/8/2007 8:41:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, mmccants@io.com writes: The Centaur burn for 3 minutes at 22000 miles and the residual fuel and oxidizer dump after payload separation should be visible as two naked-eye "comets" about 6+ hours after launch from the entire western hemisphere since this will occur over the equator at longitude 90 west. Hi Mike -- Thank you for the advance notice of this event. From my driveway in Putnam Valley, NY, I had an excellent south-southwest sky view toward Orion and Eridanus. However, after scanning the area with my 7x35 wide-angle (11-degree) binoculars, I was unable to witness neither the predicted burn nor the fuel dump. I did leave my post at 3:11a.m. to double check the Spaceflight Now website, only to find out that the the Delta 4-Heavy rocket's upper stage ignited at 3:00 a.m. for the third time of the night.event and succesfully completed at 3:03 am. I would be interested to learn if you or other SeeSat-L members were more successful in witnessing either event that I. -- joe rao ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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