Hi Gerhard Yes , whilst appreciating the station was in free drift when I saw it last night ( Thats why I wanted to image it , even though it was low in the sky ) , what I cant make out is the effect free drift had on its attitude. Perhaps Mike or Phil could simulate this for us. To me there's no doubt that its the truss that creates this brilliant white effect..plus , now , the recently added earth facing radiator at P3/P4.The orange depends on how illuminated the main panels are....and now we have two sets of arrays , there's more chance of seeing the orange "glow". So the question is I suppose , when in free drift , does the complex simply carry on the way it was at the point of entering free drift , which means the panels lose any sun pointing ability...or in addition does it slowly rotate ...if so about which axis ? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard HOLTKAMP" <grd.holtkamp@t-online.de> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 9:34 PM Subject: Re: ISS pass shortly after docking > > John Locker wrote: > >>A very bright " white " ISS just made a visible pass over the UK >>This was only a 36 degree elevation transit , so very little detail in the >>images. > > I saw an ISS pass at 17:38 UTC (26-OCT-06) which was high (65 deg > elevation) > and it was also of a white ISS. Yesterday and three days ago I saw a > clearly > red (or orange) ISS. Did they change the attitude for the docking? > > Gerhard HOLTKAMP > Darmstadt, Germany > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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