Hello List,
At 06:23 4-12-00 , you wrote:
>Following a request for observation I made on the French "liste Alphonse", one
>observer, Etienne Simian from France, was able to spot it with binoculars at
>21:56 UT on Dec. 3 during the EVA. Shuttle was in darkness and lit by its
>floodlights. Magnitude was reported at 6 or 7. I tried twice myself after that
>with my 20x80 but was not able to see it under slightly hazy skies.
About half an hour ago I read on spaceflight.nasa.gov that NASA and the
STS97 crew
will attempt to unfold the second solar array at 23:23 GMT. To me it seems
logic the
Shuttle floodlights will be on to illuminate the scenes.
I had one pass at 22:32 GMT and will have another one at 00:08 GMT.
Unfortunately I was
not able to spot the Shuttle during this pass. Anyone can tell me if the
floodlights were on
during that pass and are the going to be on at 00:08 GMT?
Regards,
Cees Bassa
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Dec 04 2000 - 14:47:27 PST