--- Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote: <snip all> Nice story in today's DN, Joe. Bauman, J. 12/23/2005. Jan. 15 re-entry of Stardust probe to light up sky over Wendover. Deseret News. http://deseretnews.com/dn/view2/1,4382,635171081,00.html?textfield=Stardust An X-Y reentry track map: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/images/content/138867main_stardust2.jpg - in - http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/exploringtheuniverse/stardust.html Tips on viewing, photometry, and video photography with celestial chart plots of the reentry track - http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/viewingforum.html Two charts showing predicted brightness in magnitudes - http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/brightness.jpg http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/Moonpnts.jpg Apparently the track will be in the mag may be at mag 6, 7 or 8 range and south of Wendover on a line between Elko and the Utah Test and Training Range is the prime viewing spot. But for every 200km from the track, the magnitude drops 1.5 mags. So it will be dimmer in Salt Lake. The reentry chart for Salt Lake City (nowhere near as impressive as the Wendover chart) - http://reentry.arc.nasa.gov/stardust_saltlake.jpg Canopus56(Kurt) __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/