A nice low northerly pass over the Toronto area in twilight at 22:06 UTC Friday - approximately 7-8 degrees apart. Randy Attwood Mississauga At 04:53 PM 28/11/2008, you wrote: >On Friday 28 November 2008 20:02, Leo Wikholm wrote: > > We have succesfully observed the International Space Station (ISS) and > > the Space Shuttle > > Endeavour at same time in the sky in Finland. > > > > The pair came visible at 16.02 UTC (Nov 28, 2008). The sky was little > > bit cloudy but I saw > > these objects separately with my 16x50 binoculars in Helsinki. The > > bottom object (ISS) was > > little brighter (maybe about +1 mag). The separation angle was about 2 > > arc minutes, > > so they were easily visible. > > > > From my location in Central Germany I had the very same impression looking >through 10x50 binoculars between 15:59 and 16:02 UTC (28-NOV-08). I likewise >had a somewhat cloudy sky. One orbit later the clouds had thickened but I was >able to pick out the ISS and Shuttle as fuzzy dots through the clouds during >the final 15 seconds or so before shadow ingress at 17:34:55 UTC. The weaker >spot which I take to have been Endeavour was leading by about 3 degrees or >more which I find quite a lot if the separation burn was just half an hour >earlier. But maybe I was just fooled by the cloudy conditions which prevented >me from taking correct timing and angle measurements (there is nothing to be >seen on the picture I took). > >Gerhard HOLTKAMP >Darmstadt, Germany >49.8822N, 8.6558E > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: >http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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