Hi everybody Many thanks to all lucky observers under favorable latitudes for describing your observations. I'm way too far north (45°) and even tough I watched the Nasa TV feed on the net (not terrible on my slow connection), your descriptions are the most interesting to me. Many of you described a "water dump"; can someone explain what's the reason for the shuttle for dumping water out in space ? I look forward to the upcoming STS-99 mission, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, which should provide good observation oppotunities to all of us since the Shuttle will be at a relatively low altitude (126 nautical miles) and on a 57° orbit. In the mean time, happy holidays to all and have a good Y2K party ! Pat ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html