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Starshine (was Re: (meteorobs) Is any interesting activity expected in the heavens this week?)
Pat (wd8laq@amsat.org) reported seeing starshine shortly after deploy
from the shuttle. He said that he saw all three objects (Shuttle, ISS,
and Starshine) and that Starshine was "flashing as bright as Venus"
which sounds pretty neat. I haven't had a chance to try for an eyeball
sighting yet myself...
Will
Wayne T Hally wrote:
> Regrading the Starshine satellite, it has been released, and can, in
> theory be observed. Unfortunately, as I understand the info received so
> far, it has turned out to be dimmer than expected, and is not spinning as
> fast as expected which has led to a slower flash rate. I have looked for it
> twice without any success, but they were all very low elevation, dim
> passes. For info on the project see:
>
> http://www.azinet.com/starshine/
>
> For visibility predictions see:
>
> http://www2.gsoc.dlr.de/satvis/
--
Will Marchant
kc6rol@amsat.org http://www.citizen.infi.net/~wmarchan/
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