Great high passes over Chicago this morning. The rocket stage, startlingly bright and approaching Mars in brilliance with a complex light curve, passed through Auriga on-time at 06:01:35. Shenzhou 6 itself sped through Auriga around 06:14:15. Shenzhou 6 peaked in brightness at magnitude 1.5 --nearly identical in brightness to Castor which it passed at a distance of about five arcminutes, a little closer than I had expected. Nice clear skies here in Chicago for the past few mornings. It's been a real pleasure to see this history-making space flight... -FER 42.0N 87.7W, or 41.4N 72.1W. www.HistoricalAtlas.com/lunars ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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