In spite of cirrus, moonlight and artificial lights causing limiting magnitude of maybe about +2.5 (I was able to see Polaris.), I was able to watch Shuttle and Station again tonight (Oct. 17 local time). The Shuttle was at least -1, quite a bit brighter than Vega. Due to almost forgetting and getting outside as fast as possible to a place where a building blocked NNW, I first saw Shuttle at about 0:42:00, and I wasn't able to tell if ISS appeared before Shuttle disappeared. In the NE ISS got even brighter than Shuttle had been, maybe -3 (?). I was able to see each one fade out in the east. It's nice to get to see them even when the weather isn't that good. Again, no stopwatch, no binoculars. My location was around the steps area on the east front of the building where I work, on the UT Austin campus. Thanks, Bram, for reporting seeing those geosats! Cool! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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