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Угловое будет побольше, но насколько, надо следить по картинке из ЦУП-Х. В принципе, на этот момент есть предварительный набор двухстрочников, но я бы на него не слишком полагался.
LAST FLYBY: Space shuttle Atlantis landed at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:56 a.m. EDT today, wrapping up the final mission of NASA's space shuttle program. Hours earlier, the retiring spacecraft performed a farewell flyby over southern Australia. Christopher Handler took this picture from Mt Lofty, just outside of Adelaide:"The second streak in the photo is the International Space Station, which followed Atlantis closely across the sky," says Handler. "The was the last good view of a space shuttle from Australia."
Diagram with a map indicating the portion of the flight path viewable by Chris Valentine as he recorded the STS-107 reentry. The image contains other data such as the GPS coordinates for the end points and the time on location for the shuttle as it entered and then left the field of view.
I observed STS-107 from my location Wainuiomata. New Zealand: 41.261 S174.947W in the evening sky for approximately 1 minute at 0859 UTC on Jan25 2003. Sky was quite cloudy but there was a clear patch which allowed theobservation. Though I am a novice at this I suspect that the magnitude was higher thanpredicted by Heavens Above- that site appears to be having server problemsat present but I think it said about -1.2. The object was quite brightand steady with no noticable flicker.
My Quicksat predictions with OIG elements agreed withHeavens-Above.com -- and both seemed to be okay. Butthe conditions weren't very good; cirrus around, 22-degree halo around the Moon, but planets and a number of stars were visible, including whatever's near Mars right now. STS-107 wasn't very bright (+2?at best), and I was only able to see it for about 25-30 seconds, moving from SSE to SE. (I first saw it at 12:35:53 and also clicked when it went somewhat near a +3[?] star at about 12:36:19.) Tomorrow should be an good pass, but the weather is predicted to be overcast.
My girlfriend Lucille and I just made an observation we thaught was almostimpossible, that of Hubble and Columbia from as far north as 46 deg. latitude.All conditions were favorable this morning except for the Moon that was rightover the spot where I was waiting for the Shuttle with my 20x80 binocs.Lucille spotted it first with her 8x40 at around 04:49:30 EST (09:49 UT) alittle while after shadow exit. I then picked it up in my 20x80 and followed itfor about four minutes. Maximum elevation was at 7.5 degrees and magnitudeestimated at +3. It was hardly visible to the naked eye because of theinterfering Moon. I lost it at 1.5 degree above horizon because it became toodim. It was the first use of our new balcony at the second floor of our home with anunobstructed view of the southern horizon. We made a balcony on both sides ofthe house on the second floor with no roof over them so we could be well placedto make satellite observations. It paid off this morning ! I wonder what was the northernmost latitude from which Hubble was observed.