Hello, At 10/12/00, at 23:13 (GMT), I observed the ISS which reached negative magnitudes. I could say how negative, because all my effort was on trying to get a visual lock on the space station in my telescope. Finally, I did, at the end of the pass. It looked like two (very bright!) white balls , with absolutely no distance between them. I'm not sure if it was a real image, or that my eyepiece was just a little bit out of focus (which it was). Has anyone observed the ISS since Zvezda and the Progress supply ship were added to the stack, in a telescope? See anything similar? The Shuttle did not visibly pass over my location. It was predicted to - whether or not it was to passed in sunlight, I do not know. TrakSat does not say. I can't use any modern sat prediction software until I get my computer back, and I figured that Heavens-Above would not have the current STS-92 elements. However, Discovery was predicted to pass over my location, 5 minutes after ISS. Good fortune is with me! The docking will occur at 17:43 GMT tomorrow, and I'll have high-speed Internet access at precisely that time. Just watching docking how NASA TV does it is just fascinating for me. But since nothing's going to get blown up, or anybody killed, I don't expect to hear anything more that just the mention of the docking - if the newsmedia can even be that good to us for a day. How sad, over and over. -------------------------------- Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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