Tonight I drove S of town to 42.4141 degrees N by 92.3611 degrees W to see if I could see Progress M1-11 for the first time. At 950 feet altitude, in the glare of the city to my north and in significant twilight, I spotted it. It was right on schedule. Close to 10 min and 40 sec later the light gold colored ISS cruised along the same general path. I was having a terrible time locating identifiable stars so, out of frustration, as my watch was beeping and I was making no progress of my own, I laid down my 7X binocs and grabbed my low power (2X) night vision scope. In that I spotted it moving low in the NE sky. The time was noted at the moment it passed between Sulafat in Lyra and Alberio in Cygnus. It was right on schedule according to the TLE predictions. That time was 2:37:06 GMT or 9:37:06 PM CDT. These are the TLEs I used: PROGRESS-M1 11 1 28142U 04002A 04145.96218822 .00022310 00000-0 14355-3 0 917 2 28142 51.6338 84.0715 0031768 217.7748 226.4937 15.75409804 18264 ISS (ZARYA) 1 25544U 98067A 04146.66305958 .00013766 00000-0 12454-3 0 8538 2 25544 51.6332 80.5199 0006276 151.8180 281.0685 15.68397513314780 Tom Iowa USA + + + P.S. A very interseting strip of an image taken by Envisat can be found at: http://www.esa.int/esaSA/SEMUT8HHZTD_earth_1.html I prefer to click on the high resolution JPG, Size: 2 076 kb, and let my computer slowly scroll along the right side of the image. Awesome! I wonder how long it would take to pass that much area at the height of Envisat? ..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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