ISS+Discovery Joint Pass over Barcelona (Spain) in STS-133 FD12 - 03/07/11

A day after Discovery, during mission STS-133, undocked from ISS and performed a fly-around of the station, and two days before it landed for the final time, I had this final opportunity of seeing both vehicles in orbit at the same time in this joint pass, with Discovery leading the way and the ISS following.


The static noise in the background is from my Icom IC-R5 radio scanner, to which I had attached a V-style dipole TV antenna and which I had tuned to 145.800 FM (ISS Ham Radio voice downlink frequency) but I heard nothing.

The brightness magnitudes were -3.5 for the ISS and -1.2 for Discovery.

NOTE: Video reuploaded so as to fix a problem when watching it in a non-HD quality.

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