Beautiful HST show
Geoff Chester (NASEP007@sivm.si.edu)
Thu, 27 Jul 95 10:31:36 EDT
I remember a very spectacular pass of HST while visiting my parents in
Florida a couple of years ago. HST climbed from the west toward the zenith
and brightened as it got higher. It passed about 85 degrees overhead, at
which time it rivalled Venus in brightness. It then entered the earth's
shadow just after culmination and faded to nothingness in a matter of
seconds. This was the penultimate satellite pass for this particular
evening, when I recorded about 20 naked-eye birds in a tad under 2 hours.
I remember it well, since it was also my first sighting of Cosmos 2237r,
which at the time was flashing about twice per second....
TTFN
Geoff
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