I'd also like to thank everyone, especially Dan, for the heads-up on the depletion burn. I dragged out three absolute satellite novices into the bitter dark cold saying "you just wait..." and you guys really came through for me. It was such a dark night here at 45.9 -64.4 that we had at least +5 limit and the Delta was easy to pick up at 25-30 deg. elev. By the time the last of my group got their binoculars latched on, we still had about 5 seconds. One of them said, "hey, looks sort of like a shooting star..." then BOOM! Their socks were knocked off. Technically: didn't note time, damn bright, lasted c. 20 second for the first blast, then a 3? second pause, then let out a small second spurt. Main cloud quickly expanded like a trumpet to >>1 degree, then bent slightly, curled over at the outside lip sharply, and strongly resembled a 2+ degree lily bloom. the leading "lip" of the bloom came surprisingly close (in contact with?) to the four globalstars, which were easily visable about 3 degrees due east of the 2nd stage. VERY impressive! -Tyler (MTX) 45.885 -64.368 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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