Hi Kevin and list, I was a bit luckier. Clouds were moving in but were low enough to permit observation. The rocket stage was observed at mag 0.7 quite steady and yellowish. I didn't notice a regular and noticeable variation in brightness during my 45 second observation before shadow entry. My stopwatch malfunctioned so I couldn't take the exact time but this object looked many seconds early compared to the Space Track elset with the epoch 269.845. Shenzhou 7 was a lot fainter and hard to see. It reached only mag 3 and was steady. I corrected my stopwatch problem and timed it as being right on time when using the epoch 269.859 elset from Space Track. I tried to observe the two debris objects but was unsuccessful with my 20x80. The sky was not very dark and there were very thin high clouds. Daniel Deak Webmestre, site Obsat Pompier, municipalite de L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com -----Message d'origine----- De : Kevin Fetter [mailto:kfetter@yahoo.com] Envoyé : 25 septembre 2008 19:47 À : seesat-l@satobs.org Objet : clouded out So much for seeing the chinese spacecraft pass by. It was clear the last 3 nights, then one something interesting going to happen, the darn clouds show up. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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