VERY bright ISS pass over Sydney/Canberra NOW!!

koputai (Jason) · #1 19-06-2010, 05:37 PM

ISS will be at Mag -2.3 crossing the southern sky (28 deg up from
southern horizon) from west to east starting around 5:54pm tonight.

Tomorrow night from 6:20pm it will be much higher, and Mag -2.9!!

Cheers,
Jason.

koputai (Jason) · #2 19-06-2010, 06:00 PM

OK, so it was a nice bright pass, but I don't think it was anywhere
neat Mag-2.3, more like 0 or -0.5

It was about the same brightness as a tumbler we saw last night, pulsating from about 0.0 to +3 every 5 seconds.

Cheers,
Jason.

Paddy (Patrick) · #3 21-06-2010, 10:26 AM

Managed to catch the pass last night with my ED80. Wasn't even aware it was happening. I was just out looking a the moon and saw the ISS scooting past the tree tops. Quickly moved the scope and got a really good view. Amazing the detail I could see. I've never caught it in a telescope before. One advantage of a small scope. Would never have got it with the 16".

torana68 (Roger) · #4 21-06-2010, 05:07 PM

managed a look with the F6 8" pretty cool.... 'bout the only thing worth seeing here last night