WOW!! Re: (meteorobs) -2 Hour weather update for Shuttle/ISS

[Pierre Martin]

What can I say.... that was spectacular!!!!!  I've never seen the ISS  
and shuttle so closely separated

It wasn't until they were quite high in the south-west that I could  
start to see the space shuttle, which was fainter next to the bright  
glare (about mag -1) of the ISS.  When they reached almost overhead,  
the shuttle suddenly flared as bright as the ISS (about -1) and by  
then the two satellites were distinct to the naked eye.  In my  
Celestron Ultima 9x63mm binoculars, the view was beautiful.  Two very  
bright "stars" side by side.  My mother came out to see and she was  
suitably impressed.

Pierre Martin
Ottawa, Ontario



On 19-Dec-06, at 6:06 PM, challiwe wrote:


> Veena and I just stepped out and saw it. It was spectacular. There  
> were
> other bright dots of light up there too. What are they called again?
>
> _____
>
>




On 19-Dec-06, at 5:48 PM, Pierre Martin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Looks pretty good for weather here!  I'll be out to look for them  
> and will report back.
>
> Pierre Martin
> Ottawa, Ontario
>
>
>
>
> On 19-Dec-06, at 4:23 PM, meteors at eclipse.net wrote:
>
>> - 2:00 weather (cloud) update for first (east) orbit.
>>
>> Somewhat iffy for NY state and new england. Patchy clouds re moving
>> southest. If you're luck, you're in a hole, if not, well, not so  
>> lucky.
>>
>>> From central NJ thru SE VA, WV and central and northern Ohio,  
>>> looks good.
>>
>>> From Indy thru central tenessee, what appear to be thin cirrus  
>>> clouds. The
>> combo should be at leat glimpseable through these layers. I hope  
>> they're
>> thin enough.
>>
>> Looks OK for most of NC southwestward to Alabama, looks great.
>>
>> For the second orbit, looks lousy from Kansas south, great above  
>> that.
>> Western KS is a maybe.
>>
>> Wether Wayne
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