Wow!!!! STS91 pass Tuesday evening over Albuquerque, NM
Robert Smathers (roberts@nmia.com)
Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:16:03 -0600 (MDT)
Holy %^&* the Shuttle was bright tonight!
I caught a reasonably good pass - 11pm MDT pass and it didn't go into
the earth's shadow until it was about 35 deg up from the horizon.
the whole entire pass was a 75 deg pass but only a portion was
seen. The best pass I think Albuquerque has had for a while (definitely
best in the time that it happened, others have been lower and more around
midnight or 1am, too late to stay up when I have to go to work the next
morning).
It was so bright that it had to be a magnitude -2 (it was as bright or just
brighter than Sirius in the Betelguese/Sirius/Procyon winter bright star
triangle).
by far the brightest I can ever remember the shuttle being.
Mir wasn't so spectacular - dim, prb. a mag +3. Mir suffered the same
fate about 35 deg up from the horizon that the shuttle did.
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de fcc sgn, Robert Smathers (roberts@nmia.com) Albuquerque, NM USA
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