Hi all, Like Phil I was trying to image ISS , and was glued to the finderscope....when I reviewed the video my images were so blurred I thought I had set the focus wrong...but it looks as if we may have witnessed a water dump..can anyone confirm ? (Phil I'll send a copy of one of my images ASAP direct) John. N W UK. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Ireland" <direland@drdale.com> To: "Seesat-l" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>; "Philip Masding" <philip.masding@virgin.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:35 PM Subject: RE: ISS and STS > Phillip, you must be in England, right. Another fellow just posted this > observation of that trail on the HearSat list > I quote it here > Dale > > 1810z. It's a cold clear night here in the north of England, I've just > watched > the ISS going nearly straight overhead. When I saw it coming up on the > western > horizon I thought I'd picked up an aircraft banking - there looked to be a > condensation trail behind it. But no, it was the ISS and there was a > stunning > trail of gas streaming out behind it to the West, looping sharply to the > South > in a U shape. > > I could see this with the naked eye, easily with binoculars. As it came up > overhead I could distinguish two distinct trails, looking for all the world > like > aircraft con trails lit by moonlight, three or four degrees across. It put > me in > mind of the Apollo 13 movie, but unhurried Russian RT came up on 143.625 as > usual. > > Did anyone else see this ? > > Chris Cadogan G3XWB > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philip Masding [mailto:philip.masding@virgin.net] > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:27 PM > To: SeeSat > Subject: ISS and STS > > > 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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