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    Just watched the ISS streak across the Southern Californian sky for THIRD night in a row!!!

    Can hardly wait to talk to flight engineer Pettit aboard the ISS next week ...

    http://www.iss-flabob.com

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    Yeah its pretty neat to see it fly overhead. I guess there was a high altitude 6 min pass the other night here but I was sleeping and missed it..

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    The ISS passed over me the other night at about 46 degrees and a brightness of -3.1 magnitude. It was super bright, and super cool!

    Mike
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    I saw the ISS pass last nite at 2104 local time. It was very bright. I live where there is hardly amy light pollution.

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    One night when I lived in Arkansas, I was standing outside the house looking up at dusk. In my old neighborhood everyone walked at that time so about 20 or so neighbors stopped and asked what I was looking at. I pointed to this square shaped bright light zooming overhead and said it was the ISS. The neighbors were amazed they could see it and how much detail you could make out. It was like that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

    Here in Colorado, no neighbors, and cows can't look up for some reason, but I see it zoom overhead all the time. It's as big of a thrill as the first time I saw it.

    And yes I wave.
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    The ISS passed over me the other night at about 46 degrees and a brightness of -3.1 magnitude. It was super bright, and super cool!
    2 years ago, had a great pass -- with Shuttle chasing. Just before it went into eclipse, got a flash off the ISS solar arrays -- that wakes you up!!

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    Interesting that you say you could see detail. I have never been able to see detail even using binoculars....

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    Agree +1 with W9GB... Seeing the arrays and a shuttle approach was amazing !!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by KX0Z
    Interesting that you say you could see detail. I have never been able to see detail even using binoculars....
    No, not details of ISS -- you would need a small telescope and good digital camera.
    The Shuttle is visible to naked eye, appears at a lower magnitude than ISS --
    it's reflection is assisted by open payload doors and pointed toward Earth.

    The ISS solar arrays can create an Iridium style flash -- these are not easily predicted,
    since it involves rotation of the solar arrays to a favorable angle.
    The ISS did reorient its solar arrays before shuttle dockings -- so those were opportunities to look.

    Iridium satellite flare
    http://www.twanight.org/newtwan/photos.asp?ID=3002631

    IF you have a visible pass that enters eclipse (invisible) during an overhead pass --
    That can sometimes produce the "right conditions"

    http://www.assa.org.au/observing/iridium/

    These flashes or flares can reach -8 magnitude (brighter than Venus).
    This photo on APOD caught an Iridium flare on a May 2, 2000 at sunset.
    http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000502.html
    Last edited by W9GB; 04-29-2012 at 03:20 PM.

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    No, not you that was directed toward K0bam. I'm quite aware that one isn't going to see any detail naked eye...

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