FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Shuttle/ISS Visible Pass Saturday Morning

[Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

What direction will it becoming from?

Jeff

At 10:44 -0700 8/5/05, Tom Polakis wrote:
>I wrote:
>
>>  The timeline has final separation of the Shuttle and Space Station 
>>at 2:05 a.m. Saturday, so we should be able to see the two separate 
>>craft three hours later.
>
>I just learned from somebody who appears to know what he's talking 
>about that the Shuttle and ISS will be separated by 29km by 5:20 
>tomorrow morning.  Heavens Above gives a distance of 518km at 
>closest approach.  Do the trig, and you get an angular separation of 
>3.2 degrees.  They will be moving across the sky at roughly 1 degree 
>per second.
>
>Should be quite a sight!
>
>Tom

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