Shuttle seen after 1st orbit !

From: Daniel Deak (dan.deak@sympatico.ca)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 18:53:00 EDT

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    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
     
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