Re: STS-110 Obs

From: Jari (finn1@telus.net)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 19:12:38 EDT

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From: "Jonathan T Wojack" <tlj18@juno.com>


> > Polaris. Moving fast and bright along it's entire track, mag was est -2.
7min
> > and 21 sec later ISS came along, less bright and it had a distinct
orange
> > tint to it.
>
> Do you mean that the ISS is *trailing* STS-110?  I would have thought
> that the Shuttle would be trailing the ISS.

The Shuttle had just launched and being in a lower orbit than ISS, took less
time to orbit the planet so at the time of my observation, Atlantis was
'ahead' of the Station.

Jari

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