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Quote from: RamjetFDO on 03/07/2011 07:25 pmThanks for the screenshots of Brian's send off... I remember working with him as a Propulsion (PROP) Officer on many a Shuttle mission.He is a consummate professional and, while this is a sad, but inevitable, byproduct of the Shuttle program winding down, I'm glad that Brian is stepping down on *his* terms.Concur Roger. He has been a great sevant to MOD.
Thanks for the screenshots of Brian's send off... I remember working with him as a Propulsion (PROP) Officer on many a Shuttle mission.He is a consummate professional and, while this is a sad, but inevitable, byproduct of the Shuttle program winding down, I'm glad that Brian is stepping down on *his* terms.
Couldn't make it home in time to get my camera set up - was about 10 mins from home when I looked up in the North West sky and saw Discovery leading the way and the ISS about 10 degrees behind.
Quote from: Astro_yyz on 03/08/2011 01:31 amCouldn't make it home in time to get my camera set up - was about 10 mins from home when I looked up in the North West sky and saw Discovery leading the way and the ISS about 10 degrees behind. Just curious, about how many miles of separation was that?
From Toronto.I have a big waterspot on my lens
Quote from: Naito on 03/08/2011 12:37 amFrom Toronto.I have a big waterspot on my lens Nice one! That's Toronto FC's home stadium in MLS!(Can't beat proper football )
Quote from: vt_hokie on 03/08/2011 03:10 amQuote from: Astro_yyz on 03/08/2011 01:31 amCouldn't make it home in time to get my camera set up - was about 10 mins from home when I looked up in the North West sky and saw Discovery leading the way and the ISS about 10 degrees behind. Just curious, about how many miles of separation was that?I think they were closer than 10 degrees. To me it looked like seven moon-widths or 3.5 degrees. Call it 4 degrees. According to www.heavens-above.com they were 500 km or 300 miles from my location at closest approach.So 300*tan(4) = (300)(.07) = 21 miles.Also, ISS seemed about six seconds behind Discovery. At 5 miles per second that’s 30 miles.So 20 to 30 miles.This was the best pass I’ve seen since STS-123 (Endeavour) undocked and ATV-1 was trailing behind. At the time ISS and the shuttle were about equal in brightness and I couldn’t tell them apart. But this great string of three spacecraft went by in about a ten minute period.