Spectacular pass just observed outside the studios of News 12 Westchester in Yonkers, NY. Shuttle Discovery actually started out much brighter than the ISS when they were low in the NW . . . because of the change in perspective, Discovery initially appeared about 6-degrees ahead of the ISS. A couple of minutes later when they were high in the northern sky, they were separated by 12-degrees and the ISS had increased to around -3 to -4 magnitude; Discovery was around -1 to -2. Then watched as they faded into the Earth's shadow. Great show! -- joe r. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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