This evening, August 14th, I first watched ISS at 19:25 UT in a still very bright sky. Just Vega and Mars were barely visible at 1 power. ISS was S, mag -2 and could be followed at 1 power well into the southeast. One orbit later, at 21:04 UT, I saw ISS low in the west-southwest at mag 2. When looking at it with my bino's I saw a comma-shaped cloud comming from the back of the ISS-Shuttle. It curved foreward up to under the ISS-Shuttle at about the moons diameter. From there it extended in an almost straight line at an angle of 45 degrees to well in front of the ISS-Shuttle. It remainded me of the Shuttle waterdump I've seen several years ago, although then it was a much higher elevation pass and the cloud extended much more in front of the shuttle. Now with this low pass, much of the beauty of the cloud was lost due to some haze. Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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