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
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 --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now
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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The brightening I saw corresponds to the one Jim reported - about 1/2 of the way up the western sky. I discounted the reports from the others of debris because 1. I did not see it, and 2. It seemed that it may either be normal, or abnormal and the shuttle was in trouble. A definite mistake on my part. Brent --- Brent Watson <brentjwatson@yahoo.com> wrote:
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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That's the same thing I saw that I refered to as "puffs" in the contrail. I can't help but wonder when they knew they were in trouble. Barney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brent Watson" <brentjwatson@yahoo.com> To: <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 4:51 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Shuttle
The brightening I saw corresponds to the one Jim reported - about 1/2 of the way up the western sky. I discounted the reports from the others of debris because 1. I did not see it, and 2. It seemed that it may either be normal, or abnormal and the shuttle was in trouble. A definite mistake on my part.
Brent
There have been reports on network TV of astronomers as far west as Owens Valley reporting pieces breaking away. It was not made clear if the observations were telescopic. C. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
On this, my second experience in seeing the shuttle re-enter, I had the same thought as the first time. Wow, there are people in there. I am saddened to realize that we saw some of the last moments of those people's lives. My heart goes out to their families. Brent --- "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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