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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 8:57 am Post subject: ISS visible pass |
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ISS made a nice visible pass this evening, before entering eclipse at about
11:52 PM CDT.
I would estimate about a magnitude 1 or 2 (brighter than Mars, less than
Venus) - be interesting to see if this changes as new solar array is
unfurled and then allowed to rotate toward sun.
Did not see any flash, more like a "double twinkle" at eclipse line
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:53 am Post subject: Re: ISS visible pass |
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"w9gb" <spam_protect@arrl.net> wrote in message
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ISS made a nice visible pass this evening, before entering eclipse at
about 11:52 PM CDT.
I would estimate about a magnitude 1 or 2 (brighter than Mars, less than
Venus) - be interesting to see if this changes as new solar array is
unfurled and then allowed to rotate toward sun.
Did not see any flash, more like a "double twinkle" at eclipse line
gb
Another good ISS pass this evening (July 17) at about 10:25 CDT -- maximum |
elevation (locally) was 60 degrees. Just short of the maximum elevation,
ISS increased significantly in brightness (definitely brighter than Venus
! ) -- brightest I have ever seen it (- 3 or - 4 ??).
Appeared to be result of solar array alignment on this pass -- about 30
seconds later it slowly started to drop
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