An irregularly flashing object to around mag -2 was observed today 28 April at 18:29 local (06:29 UTC) in the Northeastern sky after successful docking of the ISS and TMA-2 at 0556 UTC. The timing of the sighting corresponds with a predicted pass of ISS but also of Progress M-47 DK. Unfortunately my watch is giving problems so I cannot give an exact time of sighting or flash timings. ISS was due to enter the Earth's shadow at 18:30:24- I could not observe the full pass owing to cloud overhead. Is it likely that ISS/Soyuz would flash in this manner while in its present mode and configuration? (It was in orbit coast mode and still is at the time of sending this email.) Or is it more likely that it was Progress M-47 DK? If it was ISS this is probably one of the earliest sightings of the combined craft as since leaving Kazakhstan the only other inhabited area the station passed over since docking appears to have been Papua-New Guinea. Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 41.26100S, 174.94700E ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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