I noticed from the Expedition 1 Press Kit, available at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/index.html During last evening's pass (23:06 UTC 31 October, Orbit 10) the crew was asleep but the Soyuz was rotating at 2 deg per second. The solar panels were deployed 9 minutes after lift off. Hopefully this account for the change in brightness during the pass. The same conditions will be true for this evening's pass for the NE USA and Eastern Canada (22:45-23:00 UTC or so) - crew asleep, "Solar rotation" at 2 deg per sec. Cheers, Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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