Mir - Atlantis Obs - 3 October 23:21 UTC

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The sky was clear for a change.

A 19:21 EDT (23:21 UTC) Atlantis, followed by Mir passed from
the South to the East, passing just under Jupiter (3-4 deg).  
It was nice to have a brightness reference nearby.

While it was ascending, Atlantis appeared somewhat brighter than Mir 
(0 vs 1 mag) but by the time they were passing by Jupiter, Mir was 
clearly the brighter (-2).  The separation was about 8 deg. - 
not quite close enough to fit both of them into the field of view
of my 10x50's.  

I was able to track them until the dissapeared into the haze at 
about 23:25 UTC.  

30 minutes later the clouds rolled in forcing me to miss the usual
collection of Cosmos r/b's that pass over every night.

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Don Gardner
  
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