That's the same pass of my observation. No other objects seen nearby. I suppose the final stage of its booster should have been de-orbited.(I think) Greetings, Tristan Cools BWGS 2009/9/10, Gerhard HOLTKAMP <grd.holtkamp@t-online.de>: > > HTV rose up almost vertically in the sky for its second pass here. It > appeared > weak at first but picked up in magnitude to about mag 1 or better just > before shadow ingress which happened at 19:49:19 UTC, 10-SEP-09. It appeared > even more reddish than on the first pass. > > Like on the first pass I've seen only one object and I assume it was the HTV > rather than the booster. I'll have to check the Spacetrack TLEs to clear it > up. (Thanks Marco for the note on the availabilty of the elements). > > With good evening visibility over the next few days it will be interesting > to > see the rendezvous with the ISS. > > > Gerhard HOLTKAMP > Darmstadt, Germany > 49.8822N, 8.6558E > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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