Markus, Using Shuttle as guidance and my 7 * 50 binoculars I was able to see two flashes, as mentioned in my previous email. The 2nd favourable transit just twenty minutes ago was a bit disappointing. I saw the Starshine now about 8 degrees after the Shuttle, but not flashing at all. It had a possibly small magnitude amplitude around +8. Again I used the Shuttle as guidance. For future transits I must use its (Starshine's) own TLEs. -----Original Message----- From: Markus Mehring <m.m@gmx.de> To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Date: zondag 16 december 2001 17:24 Subject: Re: Starshine deployed >On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:23:48 -0500, you (Daniel Deak ><dan.deak@sympatico.ca>) wrote: > >>Starshine 2 has been deployed at 15:02:34 UT in the direction of the velocity >>vector of the Shuttle. Eastern Europe should be very well placed for the first >>observations of the satellite at 17:55 UT. > >I gave it a try on the first post-deploy pass near 15:54 UTC, though I'd >probably be located a bit too far to the West, with the sun less than -6° >below the horizon at that time. Shuttle was there on time (as was the ISS a >few minutes later), Starshine 2 wasn't really, though. Whatever sparkling >there might have been near the Shuttle, it was indistinguishable from >background stars. Let's see what the next pass might bring. > > >CU! Markus (E8.7434, N51.7264, 113m, UTC+1) > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >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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