Re: ISS and HTV1 very close

From: Daniel Trads (danielts@post8.tele.dk)
Date: Thu Sep 17 2009 - 19:36:16 UTC

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    Hello
    
    Currently just 9 meters before the arm can reach the HTV.
    It's live at NASA TV:
    http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
    
    I'm going out to test my video/stopwatch/timesynchronization. The ISS should be handy for that. Just 7 minutes till it passes europe.
    
    -- 
    Daniel Trads Fredericia, Denmark Postion: 55.568N, 9.728E, 20m ASL
    
    Tristan Cools wrote:
    > Saw ISS with HTV 1 very close to ISS passing at 18:06UTC.  This
    > happened in twighlight with the sun still above the horizon.
    > 
    > The contrast between ISS and HTV in brightness was striking.  Distance
    > between the two objects was maybe 30 arcseconds.  I'm looking out for
    > the next pass which is much better but HTV could have been docked with
    > ISS by then.
    > 
    > Greetings,
    > Tristan Cools
    > Belgian Working Group Satellites
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