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Re: (meteorobs) Is any interesting activity expected in the heavensthis week?
In a message dated 6/14/99 1:37:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time, KevTK@aol.com
writes:
<< When Joe gets a moment to write in he may have a different perspective -
since he actually saw the thing. >>
Basically what Kevin said was true -- I only saw three or four flashes
emitted by Starshine on the morning of its deployment from STS-96. For the
most part, these flashes were no brighter than +1 or +2 magnitude; I saw them
all with 7 x 35 binoculars, although my wife did catch one of the flashes
with her unaided eyes. Thankfully, we knew where the satellite was supposed
to be that morning (roughly 2 degrees in front of the Shuttle). Without the
Shuttle, I doubt that we would have been able to find it at all!
-- joe rao
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