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On 29-3-2009 22:59, clipka wrote:
> "Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmail com> wrote:
>> Weather has been decent and I've 3 more sightings under my belt. The station
>> followed 20 minutes laster by the shuttle, the second while they were
>> linked, and finally last night the station again. She's pretty big and VERY
>> bright now!
>
> I had occasion a few days ago to witness the two up in the sky for about 2
> minutes, flying in tandem formation (I'd say they were flying "a centimeter"
> apart, though of course that doesn't mean a thing in that context). I'm not
> normally following current space news, but they just happened to broadcast a
> short info on the radio station I was listening to a few minutes before, and as
> it happened I was just arriving at home right in time, and the sky was perfectly
> clear. A nice ending for an otherwise wrecked day.
Then you are lucky. even with clear sky here I see only the brightest
stars. I have e.g. never seen the milky way in my life. Apart from the
times I visited the planetarium in Amsterdam. :(
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