Was hoping to observe the pass in question myself but clouded out. Some better news, there are passes over New Zealand a few hours before docking on Sunday morning our time, one pre and one post rendezvous firing and it looks like they should be Ok for Auckland, though it will be getting fairly light by the second pass. The firing occurs just after the first pass, wish I could grab a boat or plane and head for 51 degrees south or so ;-) I have seen through binoculars a previous shuttle close to the ISS in a similar timeframe to the second pass in relation to approach for docking, it's a great sight and I would love to see your photo if successful. Weather prospects here are much better for me tomorrow morning than today I have not posted elements at this time, probably best to leave them till a bit later to get them as accurate as possible though of course you may have to work with projected ones for the post-firing pass. However I imagine that for that one the Space Station elements will probably suffice because of the craft's close proximity by then. Best wishes with the photo opportunity Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 174.948E 41.261S (PS in case anyone is concerned I am not in or near the earthquake zone which is actually a relatively small but very devastated area, thanks to Ted for checking at the time.) > John Burns wrote: > >> Does anyone have any info on the orbit of Space Shuttle Discovery? >> >> In particular, I'm wanting to know roughly how many degrees >> ahead/behind the ISS it will be at 25 Feb 2011 @ 17:20UTC. >> _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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