>From now on I will regularly post my satellite observations on Facebook, too. Here is my first report: ------------------------------------------------- Earlier tonight I observed a bright pass of the International Space Station (ISS) with the naked eye. The space station emerged from incoming clouds at 17:32 UTC = 19:32 MESZ (local time). 3 minutes later it passed 1.8 deg from Jupiter and got nearly as bright. A few seconds later the ISS entered the Earth's shadow. I intended to watch some minutes later the cargo spacecrafts Progress M-05M (undocked from the ISS on Oct. 25 at 14:25 UTC) and Progress M-08M (launched on Oct. 27 at 15:11:49 UTC), but unfortunately both satellites could not be seen due to clouds. Visible pass details are shown here: http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetails.asp?lat=49.217&lng=7.067&loc=Bischmisheim&alt=261&tz=CET&satid=25544&date=40480.7326895255 ---------------------------------------------- Patrick _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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