Dan, That was exactly it. I should mention observations were made from a dark sky site through 10x 50 bino's Cheers pj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Deak" <dan.deak@sympatico.ca> To: <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: 11 August 2001 04:06 Subject: Re: STS 105 observed!!! > Paul J Henney wrote : > > > > As the shuttle faded I counted at least 3 > > > "emissions" looking like the coma of a bright comet. I assume these were > > > firings of the OMS? > > If it was of short duration like about 1 second, it is RCS thrusters firings used to keep the Shuttle in the proper > attitude. They fire often at this phase of flight. I have seen one such firing while the Shuttle was in darkness and it > matches your description. > > Cheers, > > Dan > -- > Daniel Deak > representant, projet spatial Starshine > Drummondville, Quebec > > COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-4:00 > > Site en francais sur les satellites: > French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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