Hello, Finally, for the first time, I have seen the ISS and Shuttle at the same time - in fact, they had been docked for six hours already. Sighted at 2350, 10-13-2000, GMT, at 47x in my telescope. Was bright. Looked like two balls of light, right next to each other, in a slightly vertical shape. I also saw faint streaks of light on each side of one of the balls of light. I suspect that this either was the Orbiter's wings, or the solar array on the ISS. Has anyone even seen this (with ISS or the Shuttle flying alone, or the two docked) ? I encourage others trying to catch the combination with a telescope. Yes, they do move fast, but it's interesting what you might see. I was able to watch the docking live over the Ukraine via the miracles of the Internet on NASA TV. Since the Ku-band radar broke Friday morning GMT, they have to use the C-band radar to beam down video and images. But when the stack is not over the U.S. or Russia, the transmission rate decreases to 1 frame/image per 10 seconds (agonizingly slow in real-time). Technically, and emotionally (for myself), the docking went great. It went flawlessly, but I wish I hadn't decided to wait until T-5:00 to start watching. My third obs of shuttles (all Discovery), and second for this mission. The weather and orbit has been uncharacteristically cooperative. -------------------------------- Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.45 N 75.33 W ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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