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Old 03-17-2009, 09:49 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee View Post
I saw Discovery last night (Monday 3-15-09) about 7 minutes after liftoff here in RI. About 15 degrees above the horizon, SSE of me. It had a flickering orange glow and was easily visable in the clear sky we had.
i saw it here in RI too, and yes it was about 7 min after the launch, pretty quickly! now, you said you had a clear view of it, I did for the 1st minute or so, then it seemed to almost blink, but with a delay: we would see it, then it would disappear, then i'd see it again further east... did you see this? i thought it was a clear night too, then I was thinking maybe there were some clouds...
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