At 1757 UTC we had an overhead shadow exit pass of the ISS/STS complex. It was due to pass close to Jupiter (in front of it for some locations not far from here!) Conditions were very poor, I saw Jupiter very briefly but it disappeared into cloud before the pass. The complex was easily visible 1x for a few second at and just after culmination, despite nothing else being visible at all. Calsky predicted -4.5 mag but to get through the cloud so clearly I suspect it was much brighter, possibly even -6. I am pleased to report that through Facebook our local observatory is continuing to encourage observation of the ISS, and I have been adding further details. Hopefully at least some will have their interest aroused to look at further objects, I will certainly do all I can to encourage that! Now to wait for a suitable solar or lunar transit and ask nicely about using their telescope maybe :-) Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 174.948E 41.261S -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20100522/e60fbef7/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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