ISS pass over Sydney/Central Coast tonight

[iceman]

At 9:03pm tonight, go out and look for the ISS - a pretty good mag -2.1 pass, reaching 57deg alt in the South East.

I was going to try and image it tonight, but it's actually in the worst possible location for me - anything to do the south has trees in the way - and this pass goes from SW through to ESE.

On Monday night @ 20:13 there's a good pass too, another mag -2.0, from SW through to ENE, reaching 54deg altitude.

[davidpretorius]

yup, saw it..........very bright before it entered earth's shadow

[Astro78]

hey Mike, where did you get the info on the Magnitude? That would be handy information. Usually use the Nasa Java thingy but never know brightness of these things....

[iceman]

That was a great pass, very bright. Got a nice widefield image will post later.

Trav - use heavens-above.com.

[h0ughy]

bugger missed it

[OneOfOne]

I was down at Mornington peninsula at a viewing, we even saw it through the cloud! I thought it was an aircraft at first.

[kim]

I was out last night trying to view the moon through the clouds with my new 10" DOB , got great views , I was also looking through bino's when I saw this bright object moving across the sky, I quickly dragged my son out for a look he said it couldn't be a plane as it hasn't any lights, it dissapeared behind the clouds in the NW. Phew! now I know I am not crazy I did see something.
Kim. I saw it from Melton.

[Kal]

Thanks for the heads up. I went out and caught the pass over Sydney tonight. I could make out some structure in a pair of 9x60 binoculars.

[iceman]

Man conditions were terrible up here tonight, absolutely blowing a gale, thick low clouds (with some gaps luckily), and mossies biting the hell out of me.

But I think I caught some sort of image.. maybe.

Was a very nice sight, so bright.

[Kal]

I had good weather conditions, but I can relate to the mozzies! Ducked outside for 5 mins max and copped 6 bites!

[h0ughy]

yes receiving my blood transfusion now - as the mossies were so thick where a single swat killed 13:scared:

[dannat]

Saw the ISS last night - viewing was mostly clear - appeared nw at 21:48 low in the sky, viewed till it travelled around till the N, i was pleased - first time i had seen it

[Sharnbrook]

Whilst I hadn't read this thread until this morning, I was sitting in the car at about 7.15 last night, waiting for my wife, when I saw a bright satellite in the south, which disappeared at about 30 deg in the east, and thought to myself that it was bright enough to be the ISS. A look at Starry Night today confirmed that it was indeed ISS, so I can say that I saw it without even trying!