sheeny
21-03-2006, 06:54 PM
Did anyone observe the ISS pass this morning?
I wasn't aware it was on, but during our morning walk, Lyn says "Hey that star's moving". There was patchy cloud moving pretty quickly from the east overhead, and at first the "star" looked like it was just the cloud moving in front of it, but I soon realised that it was moving as it got closer to Antares.
It was a similar magnitude to Antares, and passed within 10 degrees below it (width of a fist at arm's length). I just checked Satscape a while ago to confirm it was the ISS, though the prediction says it should've had a max. altitude of 58 degrees. From Cartes du Ceil Antares was at 77 deg altitude at the time. Bummer! I didn't think I was that bad at estimating angles!
;)
Al.
I wasn't aware it was on, but during our morning walk, Lyn says "Hey that star's moving". There was patchy cloud moving pretty quickly from the east overhead, and at first the "star" looked like it was just the cloud moving in front of it, but I soon realised that it was moving as it got closer to Antares.
It was a similar magnitude to Antares, and passed within 10 degrees below it (width of a fist at arm's length). I just checked Satscape a while ago to confirm it was the ISS, though the prediction says it should've had a max. altitude of 58 degrees. From Cartes du Ceil Antares was at 77 deg altitude at the time. Bummer! I didn't think I was that bad at estimating angles!
;)
Al.