Hi Last night ISS transits over Tehran with shuttel after it leave the ISS. At 18:20 local time (14:50UT) and with two min late ISS obseved in north west at alt=12 . At first we can observed ISS and a faint point near it with 20*60 binoculur.few seceds later , we can saw ISS and SHUTTEL with naked eye. It's so great at first ISS has mag 1 and shuttel bright as mag 2 . they came brighter and ISS mag reach to -1 and shuttel to 0. after two min they brightnes change and shuttel became brighter than ISS . they have about 10 arcmin distense in sky and I never can explain my sense in that time. About 200 amateur astronomer that coming to Tehran monthly amateur astronomy gathering,After a speach about satellites observation can observed this beautiful event in Tehran University Physics Dep. yard. pouria __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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