Saw The Space Station

"Phil MacDouglass" wrote in message
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cool! how bright was it? was it near the moon?

It was about double the brightness of Sirius with a touch of orange.

This is most likely from the solar arrays.

The Atlantis was big although smaller than the ISS.

Easily visible to the naked eye.

Had a white light and was trailing the ISS. Both were
moving from the NW towards the SE.

I noted the time....It was 9:22 pm Eastern Time.

The moon wasn't out that I could see.

It was cool.





Last night. Saw it quite clearly with the shuttle Atlantis following.

Had a great view...I thought they'd be together but the shuttle was
a few arc minutes behind it, flying in formation. Watched it for about
2-3 minutes.