Since I've been lurking here for over a week it's about time I introduced myself. I'm an 'A'-level student living in Newlyn, Cornwall, UK. I've watched astronomy from the sidelines for most of my life, but due to a semi-urban setting, weather, lack of equipment and general idleness I've done little observing myself. In July of 1994 however I happened to see a tumbling satellite at sunset; this was my first inkling that it was possible to see with the naked eye these devices one reads so much about (I have some lousy observations if anyone wants to have a stab at identifying the object; it seems to have been travelling from east to west). Soon after I got a modem in '95 some predictions for Mir were posted to sci.astro.amateur and with the aid of these and good weather I managed to observe the station three times. Since then I've seen it once or twice with the aid of Traksat (the last time I saw it was during rev #55485). I found out about seesat-l from a reply by Walter Nissen to my request for current Mir elsets in sci.astro.amateur. Regards - Jacob Nevins <jacob@spuddy.mew.co.uk> Approx. location: 50d5m32s N, 5d31m45s W, 10-20m up ... Spud's Public Access Unix - 01268-515441 - for free email & Usenet --- CRR QWK 1.60+