Hi everyone, Tonight Mike and succesfully videoed the STS and ISS as they passed over at about 1805UTC. As it came over the horizon I saw an approximately 1.5 degree vapour trail behind the two of them. This was through the LX200 10x50 finder which we use to initially acquire the ISS. The trail made the ISS look like a sort of comet. I was convinced we would never get an image of the STS because of the weather ( see below ) but with 2 minutes to go and the sky still clear I had to admit cloud was unlikely. Still the STS remained elusive since the angle of the Shuttle made it almost invisible. The ISS was clearly in a special flight mode for the reboost since my simulator predicted XVV and it was definitely not that. We will be processing our images over the weekend and hope to post them next week. We have had a bit of good luck with the weather in the last few days with the UK having cold, frosty, clear nights. So we have seen passes on the 9th, 10th and 12th. On the 11th fog intervened. Today the forecast was cloud moving up from the south and I looked at some BBC webcams which indeed showed it arriving in London at 0900 and then Oxford by 1000, extrapolating meant we stood no chance of still having clear skies by 1800 but later on the cloud slowed down and we made it. Phil ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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