Emergency Heads Up - Eastern Seaboard Nsw - Iss Passes 20:56

[h0ughy]

Yes Thats Right The Iss Passes At Mag -0.7 Tonight, In About 20minutes

[Orion]

Just seen it pass. I was out there showing it to the kids.
Thanks for the heads up.

[JohnG]

Looked good, nearly collided with Sirius, :lol: , nice golden colour.

Cheers

JohnG

[Phil]

just turned on starry night pro plus 6 to see the ISS going over to the south quickly grabed the bino. and there it was what a great sight.
Phil

[iceman]

doh! 10 minutes too late.

[h0ughy]

i TOOK PHOTOs post later

[h0ughy]

well my best shots, first lot looking nw then straight up then looking SE. If you can pick out the stars please do? this was to be mag -0.7, not sure what the actual brightness was?

[JohnG]

Hey David

That last shot is of the ISS going past Sirius, was a little closer here, Sirius, Mag -1.46, I think ISS, the estimate of -0.7 would be pretty close. Nice shots :thumbsup:

Cheers

JohnG

[h0ughy]

thanks john very spur f the moment, the wife almost went ballistic since the kids were going to bed at the same time, I set up in less than 2 minutes and just in time to see it come

[RB]

Nice shooting Tex !

I missed it. :sadeyes:

[Rodstar]

Well wouldn't you know it?! I just saw this thread, but I am pleased to say that I saw it anyway, quite by accident, while showing my dad some highlights of the sky through my ED80.

Dad reminisced back to the 1950's (or was that the 1960's) when he was teaching in Griffith, when the first satellite was going to be passing overhead. Apparently it was a big thing in Griffith, it created quite a stir amongst the whole community.

[sheeny]

Weather was good here so thought I'd get ambitious and set up out at Blue Hill (where I go to get away from lights) with the scope and actaully try to track the thing. Printed detailed charts from Heavens-Above and rang Lyn to see what time she'd be home for dinner etc.

Time was a bit pushed but I arived on site about half an hour before the ISS is due. 2 mates came out as well for the occasion. :thumbsup: The sky was still too light to do an accurate drift align, so set it up rough, sent the goto to Sirius and adjusted the azimuth to get it close and hope everything is close enough...

The plan was to get the scope set up on aor as close to the path of ISS as it rose so I had a reasonable chance to get it in the FOV and then chase it. Heavens-Above prdicted it would be magnitude 1.0 at 10 degrees above the western horizon, so we expected it to be bright...

Nothing...

hmmm... looking looking looking... (as Con says)

Then Peter says "there it is up there!". I first thought he was jerking my chain, but a quick glance up confirmed that Sirius was moving...:P

Whoops!!!! No chance chasing it with the scope now so the trusty 20x80s were swung into action.

:rofl: Best laid plans! I should've known 1.0 would be very optimistic at 10 degrees above the western hoizon!

Al.