Hello all, Observed a nice ISS pass here yesterday evening near 19:40 UTC. This pass was nice due to the circumstance of the nice celestial "composition" involving ISS passing through a field with several objects close together: Mars, the moon, Venus & the pleiades. Upon ascending from the western horizon, ISS passed a bit east of bright Venus, and then just west of the moon & Mars, litterally grazing the Pleiades, while increasing in brightness slowly. There was some publicity given to this pass and a similar one the previous evening by Dutch meteorologist Jacob Kuiper, so a lot of amateur astronomers here hhave been looking at, and photographing these ISS passes. It was funny to compare a few of those and note the parrallax of the trail between different locations in the country. - Marco ------ Dr Marco Langbroek Leiden, the Netherlands 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek weblog: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/iss_log.html ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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