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(meteorobs) Mir 9/25/00
Hi folks:
This is one of those last minute thing again... I look at the wall
clock - it was 08:10pm and suddenly I remebered MIR suppose to be
visible outside my window around 8:00pm tonite. Luckily the wall clock
is 'too fast' and I caught the BRIGHT 0.2 mag MIR sailing towards
Scorpion. I called out to my 6 years old daughter to join me to watch
MIR. Together we saw it made a very slow 'curve' trajectory and
disappear in the low latitude clouds towards the south. I was tempted
to swing the nearby C8 to follow it but decided otherwise.
Just to be dead sure, I log onto heavens-above and confirmed our
sightings.
Wonder whether is it plausible to view and follow such a slow and
bright satellite by manual slewing the C8?
rgds
ykChia
1.455N, 103.802E, 20m, +8 GMT
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