I too saw the same ISS pass as Allen & Ed, but geographically closer to Allen with separation of only about 33mi (~53km), whereas Ed is about 290mi N of us, and like Allen I saw no flare. I saw ISS 1x NE culm 32 deg, closer in magnitude to Jupiter than Saturn but not quite as bright as Jupiter. I was also looking for some color 1x, red or yellow and did not see either ?? the moon and Venus were somewhat more interesting in SW. did not get any positions of other sats due to a movie date with wife, IMO The Family Man is worth the price of admission. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 12/30/00 at 09:00 Allen Thomson wrote: >Ed Cannon reported from 30.3086N, 97.7279W: > >> Last night (about 0:53:30-0:55:30 Dec 30 UTC) I was watching >> what proved to be a very bright ISS pass, very nearly as >> bright as Jupiter, when it flared briefly -- about one or >> two seconds -- to brighter than Venus; then it dropped back >> to -2.5 or so and then finally gradually faded as it went >> into the Earth's shadow. > >We observed the same pass from 26.2157N, 97.6810W. While it was very >bright, I saw no flare, although I was watching for one. > >Question, mostly for Rob Matson, I suppose: are negative observations >useful in modeling ISS flares? > > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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 ******************************************* Paul Gabriel 26.24310N 098.21635W 33m (the stars at night are big & bright......) gabriel305@earthlink.net titan / win95C / Calypso ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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