Re: Bright Moon, Dim Shuttle
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 00:31:23 -0600
Don <Mir16609@aol.com> wrote:
] At 23:07 UTC Discovery/HST passed in the south about 18 deg above
] the horizon. This was the first shuttle pass above 10 deg of
] elevation that i have observed where it never was visible at 1x. It
] was in the +5.0/5.5 range.
<...>
] I realize that this is not the brightest moon in 133 years but it is
] bright enough for me.
My observation was that the Shuttle/Hubble pass here was not as bright
as I expected. It didn't get as bright as Saturn, but as it went into
the general vicinity of Aldebaran it did get about as bright as that
star.
Question: When will the Shuttle undock from/release the HST? I tried
unsuccessfully to find that information on a couple of NASA Web sites.
Kind of neat one-power pass: a GPS Delta (23834, 96-19B) at about +2.5
or maybe even +2.0 went just a tiny fraction of a degree from Jupiter
and then from Saturn. 30.386N, 97.739W, 150m (UT Austin campus)
The Moon was pretty bright here too! :-) But now the sky is
overcast. (Well, a weather Web site tells me that, at least.)
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
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