There are 4 bright, nearly-overhead ISS passes tonight/tomorrow morning. It should be clear skies and nice weather - a great opportunity to for observing. Jared On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Richard Tenney via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:

Ryan, my 6" Newt is probably still the one that gets used most often; good choice! /R

________________________________ From: Ryan Simpkins <astro@ryansimpkins.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 1:12 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] 2 nice ISS passes

On Sun, June 1, 2014 18:58, Wiggins Patrick wrote:

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Tonight: Appears 22h59m19s -0.3mag az:228.7° SW horizon Culmination 23h04m41s -4.3mag az:141.7° SE h:76.8° distance: 425.1km height above Earth: 415.8km elevation of Sun: -19° Disappears 23h10m06s -0.1mag az: 54.9° NE horizon

My sons and I caught this one tonight. We were stationed out in Fairfield under beautiful skies. We had a clear view of it from where we spotted it near Hercules through to the northern Horizon. It was the first sighting of the ISS for my two young astronomers. I may have been more excited than they were.

My 9yo son was far more thrilled that he found the Leo Triplet, M13, and M5 on his own tonight without any help. He has a little 6" Dob. It fits him like a glove:

http://photos.utahsimpkins.com/photos/i-cVk4H4S/0/L/i-cVk4H4S-L.jpg

After the ISS passed we sat and picked out a few constellations (we are still learning). After a while he said: "Dad, people who don't like astronomy aren't for me. I like astronomers." Nine years old and he has it all figured out. :)

-Ryan

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You're correct. My CalSky alert shows tonight's passes as 21, 48, 48, and 21 degrees elevation from here in Cache Valley, but the accompanying images which I used as a reference show the 48 degree passes as directly overhead and the 21 degree passes at about 50 degrees elevation. It seems there's something amiss in their chart calculation. Still, 4 or 5 passes in one night is relatively rare. Thanks for the correction. Jared On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:

Hi Jared,

On 03 Jun 2014, at 10:58, Jared Smith <jared@smithplanet.com> wrote:

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There are 4 bright, nearly-overhead ISS passes tonight/tomorrow morning. It should be clear skies and nice weather - a great opportunity to for observing.

Jared

Are you talking about northern Utah?

I ask because NASA is showing the next passes for N Utah will only reach 40, 14, 14, 39 and 23 degrees and not the 90 degrees for overhead.

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