Hi JPL havent been able to give an accurate estimate of magnitude - originally it was expected to be around mag +7.5 at max. Then the orientation of the spacecraft and hence the three large solar panels changed and JPL expected the magnitude to drop to about +8.5 when it entered shadow south of Cape Town. The local observatory was planning to do a webcast but it seems this has been cancelled due to US departments cut-backs that were involved with the webcast so all that will be coming from this part of the world might be a few "pretty" pictures if basically ordinary cameras can record that faint. I can go that faint with no problem but I basically rate it as a "non-event" so not particularly interested or excited about it but will probably do it anyway :-)) Cheers Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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