Re: Mir + Discovery sighting from Paris

Tristan Cools (tcools@nic.INbe.net)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 23:43:52 +0200 (CEST)

At 17:30 3-06-98 -0400, you wrote:
>Discovery was just seen here, slightly west of Paris, France, passing
>by Polaris at 21:09:45 UTC and trailing Mir by 3 min 30.1 sec on
>virtually the same trajectory.

I saw that same passage in Bruges, Belgium.
I measured a time difference of 3min31.05s between eps and del UMA.


>
>Discovery was considerably (several magnitudes) brighter than Mir.
>


I thought it was the other way around.  Mir, which was preceeding the
shuttle was some 2 magnitudes brighter than STS91.


Greetings,
Tristan Cools
tcools@nic.INbe.net
BWGS Member - Belgian Working Group Satellites

Observing at: Damse Vaart: 3.2486E/51.2279N/Rijckevelde:
3.2867E/51.2054N/Brugge: 3.1611E/51.2108N