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Old 13-07-2008, 06:33 PM
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Just watched tonight pass. Lots of high cloud here, and the moonlight is diffusing through it to light up everything like a full moon. Transparency was pretty poor, obviously, I could see Jupiter in the east, the moon, the pointers, Acrux and Becrux and sometimes just see Gacrux. Given the clouds I didn't bother to set up a camera.

I picked up the ISS at about 20° above the horizon. It passed a little more than the length of Crux below Acrux, within a degree of Alpha Centauri and about 6 degrees under the moon before entering eclipse (or perhaps it was just obscured by clouds, I'm not sure).

Always good to watch!

Al.
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