I have not had the opportunity to observe any of our "marathon" ISS passes until now owing to work commitments for the evening ones and the need to get some sleep during the rest of them! We are moving premises at work so it comes at a difficult time until the weekend. (For those who may have missed the earlier correspondence the ISS is close to the terminator and it is near our summer solstice giving us up to 6 visible passes a day.) However I have made a point of observing an ISS pass just under an hour ago as it was predicted to cross Jupiter. In fact it did not appear to this observer to transit, but appeared to be a few arcseconds to the NorthEast at 03:59:06 local on 19 December 03 (14:59:06 18 December UTC.) I am no expert at positional observation but Heavens Above showed the following position for the predicted transit using the detailed star chart: RA 11h 18 min, Dec +5.9" Az 51 degrees (NE), elev 28 degrees which correlates reasonably well with the position shown for Jupiter. Brightness was around the predicted -0.8 in a perfectly clear summer early morning sky - at last we do not have our seemingly endless cloud that has been plaguing us a large proportion of the time over the last few months. Has anyone observed five or six passes in 24 hours during a "marathon" similar to this one? Robert Holdsworth Wainuiomata New Zealand 41.2610°S, 174.9470°E ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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