Hi, Yesterday evening (Aug. 8 here) I was at our fire house doing some training with my fellow firefighters but had the idea to bring some maps of the predicted trajectories for the shuttle. We were outside and the sky was partly cloudy. The first pass was at 00:19 UTC (Aug. 9) but the Sun had set only 10 minutes earlier. I looked up at the predicted time and there it was awsomely BRIGHT ! Despite the bright sky it was easy to sse . I guess it was at least mag -6. It did flare at culmination. I told everybody to look up and they all saw it. One of them didn't believe it was the shuttle until I showed him the second pass. We also saw the ISS pass at 01:44 and the second pass at 01:53. It's the first time I see the shuttle under these conditions. We are lucky here to be nearly right under the path of ISS-bound shuttles just as they begin their second orbit. It was also the first time for me I was able to combine my two passions at the same time, firefighting and satellite tracking. Daniel Deak Webmestre, site Obsat Pompier, municipalite de L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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