The Soyuz R/B, ISS and Progress M-62 all observed 1X in excellent conditions. (I had not been able to do any observations yesterday after Progress launch owing to poor conditions.) The R/B and Progress reached about mag 1 at culmination, the ISS around mag -2.5 The R/B is about 2 minutes ahead of the ISS, and Progress M-62 about 4 minutes behind. Owing to lack of precision in observation I will not give detailed times in here. There were a couple of interesting flashes from elsewhere in the sky while observing, I was just too busy to investigate these further Progress M-63 which is considerably behind was not observed owing to the sky being much lighter by the time of its pass. The R/B is close to decay, could be Saturday morning our time (Friday UTC) and we have one daylight pass that could be close to the time of decay. To add to all this if the shuttle is launched on schedule the docking will occur as it approaches New Zealand around dawn, but the sky may be too bright for us to see it. It passes over some parts of Australia so things may be better for them. Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 174.948E 41.261S ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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