Despite extensive clouds, I just saw ISS (25544=98-067A) make a lovely pass, rivalling Jupiter (mag=-2.1) in brightness. It rose in the SW and culminated in the SE (at 2001 April 07/00:23 UTC). The recent discussions on SeeSat regarding the attached or unattached status of Soyuz TM-31 (26603=00-070A) prompted me to look for it during this good pass. If its intrinsic brightness was the same as when we saw it 2000 November 01, it should have been an easy naked eye object (magnitude 1 or better) but I saw nothing leading/following ISS naked eye or with 10x50 binoculars. Clear and dark skies! Ed Light Lakewood, NJ, USA 40.1075 N, 074.2312 W, +24 m (80 ft) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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