Hello; Well, it cleared for us here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada at N44 W63 so I decided to bike down to the university to view and get a photo of MIR. I had let others know about the pass and that it would be a low one about 11 degrees off the horizion. Nonetheless, about 8 people showed up on the roof and as usual the wind picked up a bit but it was clear and that all that mattered. I pointed out that MIR would be about as bright as Polaris - pointing to it to give them an idea what to look for. At 23:08 UT I saw MIR over in the southwest sky, it was a bit dimmer I placed it about 2.5 magnitude and as it reached it maximum height in another few seconds it seemed to brighten to about 2nd. It then continued on its predicted path till we lost it near our horizion and it was still just noticable at possibly 3.5 magnitude. We used no optical devices. As we left a few people were asking if we would see it again, I just shrugged my shoulders. -- Clear skies --------------- Michael Boschat Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Halifax Center My astronomy page: http://www.atm.dal.ca/~andromed ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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