Paul asked me to forward the following new observations from China. ----- Forwarded message from PAUL MALEY <pdmaley@yahoo.com> ----- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:21:06 -0700 (PDT) From: PAUL MALEY <pdmaley@yahoo.com> I observed Shenzhou and its rocket this time from downtown Beijing from the roof of the Holiday Inn Downtown. The Shenzhou was visible for most of the pass generally magnitude 2.5 and basically steady reaching max elevation of 47 degrees in the north at 5:14am local time (GMT+8 hours here). The rocket was a tad bit late and it was observed definitely tumbling. This was not so much evident the previous morning. We saw at least 4 cycles. Max el was 35 degrees in the north and it did reach -1 at times. Closest approach was at 5:42am roughly. Because we are leaving for the airport I had no time to reduce the videotape to determine tumble rate but I could follow it in the camcorder view finder all the way into the east before losing it in bright twilite. Another great experience as the weather was forecast to be cloudy (wrong again!). Paul Maley Paul D. Maley 29.6049N, 95.1069W, alt.6m email: pdmaley@yahoo.com ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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