HTV rose up almost vertically in the sky for its second pass here. It appeared weak at first but picked up in magnitude to about mag 1 or better just before shadow ingress which happened at 19:49:19 UTC, 10-SEP-09. It appeared even more reddish than on the first pass. Like on the first pass I've seen only one object and I assume it was the HTV rather than the booster. I'll have to check the Spacetrack TLEs to clear it up. (Thanks Marco for the note on the availabilty of the elements). With good evening visibility over the next few days it will be interesting to see the rendezvous with the ISS. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany 49.8822N, 8.6558E ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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