I was observing from the abandoned airstrip southeast of Sr. George, with a group from Ogden. I did see the brightening of one part of the train, but attributed it to a break in the clouds. I remember that it did stay that way after the shuttle had passed. Some comments were made at that point that something had come away from the orbiter, but I did not see that. One of our group (Dave Dunn) was using 10X50 binos during the whole time and DID see something at that point, and two other points as well. I was playing with my camera, and did not see anything else. I got one photo after the shuttle had passed, but I cannot see anything noteworthy in it. I arrived in St. George at about 7 pm and spent some time observing. Saturn and Jupiter were spectacular. Dave Dunn and I compared images with and without a filter. I'll report later. Suffice it to say that I had a good image at over 500X with my 12.5". Brent --- "B. Bettilyon" <aaah@sisna.com> wrote:
Oh man. You may have something NASA would like to see.
I glanced away a couple of times to look back at at the contrail.
Did anyone else see the "puffs' I think I saw? The shuttle was still west of overhead when I saw them. Not big. Just a couple of small puffs in an otherwise pencil thin contrail. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Gibson To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Shuttle
Barney
This is Jim. I saw the flair almost stright overhead. I captured it on digital.
Jim
"B. Bettilyon" <aaah@sisna.com> wrote:
Rich. I didn't see a flair, but I saw a couple of puffs of contrail as it came over the mountains west of SGU. When did you see the flair?
Barney
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