ISS Toolbag observation

From: Marco Langbroek (marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 27 2009 - 18:42:58 UTC

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    About 40 minutes ago I finally managed to see the ISS Toolbag. I observed it 
    (visually) passing close to Algol with my Meade ETX-70, 7 cm refractor @ 13.5x 
    magnification (FOV about 4 degrees).
    
    It was faint (mag. +7 to +8) and *very* fast. Appearance was so fast that it 
    kind of takes you by surprise: you really cannot afford to blink an eye with 
    this object! For that reason, the stopwatch logged position below will probably 
    not be very accurate:
    
    33442 98 067BL  4353 G 20090127180303700 17 75 0304379+395060 16 R
    
    I had some inpression of a slow brightness variation for the very short instant 
    it was in view.
    
    - Marco
    
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    Dr Marco Langbroek  -  SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands.
    e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl
    
    Cospar 4353 (Leiden):   52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL
    Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL
    SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html
    Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com
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