Stupid question: In last night's 22:45 pass which was the ISS and which was the Shuttle? Barney
Tonight's pass was amazing! Long and bright. I had not anticipated being home tonight from work but when it was offered I took it. While checking Heaven's above I realized that the pass was occuring at that very moment! I ran outside and caught it from the zenith to its disapearance very close to the south east horizon (ok the neighbors roof) It out shone nearby Jupiter for awhile and I counted 3 flashes. Well I was outside so I pulled out the scope and invited over some 11yr old scouts and their dads that were having a campout in a yard down the street (a few of them have horse property, this being west jordan and all) we viewed Venus, Saturn-big WOW's on that one! Jupiter, the Moon, M-57, M-13 and Albireo. Lot's of questions especially from the dad's but a fun night for all I think, and a great night for some casual viewing. Howard --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
Shuttle's on the ground now but we've a "directly-over-SLC" pass of ISS tonight during the star party.
pw
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On 23 Jun 2007, at 00:57, Howard Jackman wrote:
Tonight's pass was amazing! Long and bright.
Same from the star party. The sky was still a bit bright so we didn't pick it out until it was about 1/3 of the way up the NW sky but after it passed the zenith, as Howard noted, it really brightened and everyone saw it easily. The fun thing for me, though, was watching it through my Astroscan (which is still for sale, BTW <grin>). At 15 power I didn't expect to see much but was pleasantly surprised to see both solar arrays, plainly split. We've an ISS pass in store for tomorrow evening but it will be much lower in the sky. Much more impressive for tonight's star party at SPOC will be a -8 (!!!) Iridium flare. pw
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