ISS in daylight!!!

From: Skywayinc@aol.com
Date: Tue Jun 10 2008 - 00:44:07 UTC

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    Just saw the ISS from Yonkers, just  outside of our News 12 studios just 
    prior to sunset, as an E-mail alert I had  sent out to several indivials and two 
    local (NY) astronomy clubs on Sunday  night.  Have also received confirmation 
    of sightings from two other  observers (see below). 
    
    I didn't see it until it passed almost overhead .  . . then saw it ramp-up in 
    brightness to perhaps magnitude -6 or brighter  against the hazy/steely blue 
    sky.  Also used 7 X 35 binoculars.
    
    So  yes . . . you CAN see the ISS in the daytime!!!
    
    -- joe  r.
    
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    I saw it  from Katonah, NY, picking it with the naked eye when it flared (-6? 
    -7?) shortly  after it passed overhead. I watch lots of ISS passes, and this 
    is the best flare  I've seen. Are they becoming more common?
    
    Thanks!!!
    Brian  Summers
    
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    Dear  Joe,
    
    From my home in Lindenhurst, using my eyes alone, I looked carefully  from 
    8:17 PM, and finally acquired the ISS at 8:21:10 PM EDT (checked with watch  
    checked with WWV) and watched it drift slowly in a hazy but cloudless blue  sky.  
    The object brightened gradually, almost flaring at 8:21:21.  It  then dimmed 
    and I was able to hold it visually until I lost it at  8:22:17.
    
    (Incidentally, checking the positions against Starry Night with  daylight 
    turned off helped greatly in predicting where to look- you had gotten  the 
    directions wrong in your e-mail, but the altitudes and azimuths were  right.)
    
    Sam Storch
    
    
    
    
    
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