About 45 minutes ago I saw the beautiful 47 degree high pass of the pair. It was nice! A first for me. They appeared to be going slower than what I am used to. That I'm sure was an illusion. Very peaceful---a lot like the NOSS passes. The leading unit was slightly yellow and a little bit less bright than the other. I was busy taping it with the school's digital-8 camera. They were easily seen in the viewfinder. Toward the end of the pass when I was trying to rearrange the video camera I noticed that only one was in the view finder. One had gone into shadow. That's the trouble with trying to preserve what I am seeing and seeing it at the same time. I am however glad to have seen what I did! We were very fortunate because it clouded up only minutes after the pass. Besides that it was coooold outside. Anybody know how many degrees apart they were apart at about 00:00 GMT? Best regards, Tom NE Iowa USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:45 PM Subject: Re: STS 113 proximity to ISS after undocking from ISS > Twilight "Heads up!" ....the nominal separation is four seconds. This may be a very nice sight.... ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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