I saw an Apollo the night after TLI with the 12 inch Clark refractor of the Jewett Observatory at Washington State University. I am not sure which one we saw. It wasn't 11 because I didn't get there until Sept '69. One of my professors obtained the RA and Dec predictions from JSC the day before. They were on pages of that 2 foot wide perforated teletype paper. I know that whatever flight it was launched exactly on time with no delays because we had the predictions the day before we did the observing. I think there was a first quarter moon too. maybe someone knows if there was just one flight that fit those criteria? We saw the a group of slowly flashing objects, the rolling LEM/SM, booster, shroud panels, but we couldn't tell which was which and they were all at the limit of visibility, at least mag 11. A dark field with a short flash in one part and then a short flash in another part and so on until after a few minutes it was apparent that it was a group moving together. Someone posted on this list a long time ago that JSC had an astronomy club and they viewed a number of Apollo's with scopes on the roof of one of the JSC buildings. Dale ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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