Hi Tom, List, I was blessed to see this same pass! It was cold but I did convince some of my co-workers to come out and enjoy the view. None were disappointed! I would guess that both the ISS and STS were around a -1.5 (or perhaps better) Both were steady and I also felt moving gracefully. I did not measure the distance between the 2 exactly, but they were 3 fingers apart for me (out streached arm). I did not notice a difference in color. Regards! Daniel 45.0472 -93.3663 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wagner" <sciteach@mchsi.com> To: "SeeSat" <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 7:02 PM Subject: Re: STS 113 proximity to ISS after undocking from ISS > About 45 minutes ago I saw the beautiful 47 degree high pass of the pair. It > was nice! A first for me. They appeared to be going slower than what I am > used to. That I'm sure was an illusion. Very peaceful---a lot like the NOSS > passes. > > The leading unit was slightly yellow and a little bit less bright than the > other. > > I was busy taping it with the school's digital-8 camera. They were easily > seen in the viewfinder. Toward the end of the pass when I was trying to > rearrange the video camera I noticed that only one was in the view finder. > One had gone into shadow. That's the trouble with trying to preserve what I > am seeing and seeing it at the same time. I am however glad to have seen > what I did! > > We were very fortunate because it clouded up only minutes after the pass. > Besides that it was coooold outside. > > Anybody know how many degrees apart they were apart at about 00:00 GMT? > > Best regards, > > Tom > NE Iowa > USA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> > To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 3:45 PM > Subject: Re: STS 113 proximity to ISS after undocking from ISS > > > > Twilight "Heads up!" ....the nominal separation is four seconds. This may > be a very nice sight.... > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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