Last night at 1720 our time (0520 UTC) - not exact but within 1 minute- from the Wellington waterfront at 174.779E 41.285S I observed the ISS 1X as it passed closed to the Moon. Calsky was predicting a transit to the East of here but unfortunately not in a convenient location for me to travel to at that time- not far as the crow or ISS flies, but about 90 minutes to two hours by road over hills and valleys! It was about 17 minutes after official sunset though because of hills the sun disappears earlier than that: civil twilight ended 14 minutes later. I did not have binoculars with me, and the ISS was only visible for a short time before and after it passed by the moon. It was quite clearly visible as it passed, though not as bright as the moon. However in view of the visibility when no other celestial objects could be seen, I suspect the ISS could well have been brighter than the mag -4.3 predicted by Calsky. Robert __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4214 (20090703) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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