Re: Mir + Discovery sighting from Paris

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At 23:43 3-06-98 +0200, you wrote:
>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.
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And the next passage at 22h47m20s(for Mir) was also seen.  Mir was some
3min07.36s ahead of the shuttle.(this time, the measurement was not very
accurate)
Again Mir was much brighter(mag -2.5) than the Shuttle(mag +1).

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		

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