Although low clouds have come in, I did manage to spot Progress and ISS through breaks in the clouds. I used Spica as a reference, as ISS would pass a few degrees south of it short before going into shadow. Using 20 x 80 binoculars, I spotted a bright sat in an ISS-like trajectory some 2m35s ahead of ISS. I assume this was Progress M1-11. ISS was then seen by naked eye. The binocuolars were used because of both the low altitude of this pass (~20 degrees south) and because at this time of observation, the sky is still quite bright. - Marco ------ Marco Langbroek Leiden, the Netherlands 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek weblog: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/iss_log.html ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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