Hi List, After seeing the launch this morning I now saw Envisat crossing our Dutch skies. We had two passes this evening, of which I missed the first because of clouds. By the time of the second pass the clouds had departed the sky Envisat would cross and I caught it roughly on the place it had to be though I guestimate it was a minute late to this elset: 1 27386U 02009A 02060.46929290 -.00112148 00000-0 -40148-1 0 62 2 27386 98.5309 129.0967 0016292 276.4621 83.4766 14.34774504 63 It was less bright than I expected it, about magnitude 3 at a range of 1500 km. About two years ago I had the luck to see this satellite up close at the Estec test center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. It really is huge! It has the size of an autobus and all the shiny copper colored insulation gave it an orange appearance while crossing my skies. The orange color has already been noted by other observers. I don't know if the low brightness of the satellite is due to its orientation when I saw it, but I sure hope it will turn out brighter during the passes to follow. Regards, Cees Bassa ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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