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["Mike Blask" <michaelj1@xxxxxxx>]

Pass Details
      Date:  Saturday, 06 August, 2005
      Satellite:  STS-114
      Observer's Location:  Phoenix ( 33.4480°N, 112.0730°W)
      Local Time:  Arizona Time (GMT - 7:00)
      Orbit:  350 x 356 km, 51.6° (Epoch 31 Jul)
      Sun altitude at time of
      maximum pass altitude:  -5.1°

      Event Time Altitude  Azimuth  Distance (km)
      Reaches 10° altitude 05:19:36 10° 205° (SSW) 1,330
      Leaves shadow 05:18:20 3° 210° (SSW) 1,845
      Maximum altitude 05:22:27 41° 132° (SE ) 527
      Drops below 10° altitude 05:25:17 10° 60° (ENE) 1,336
      Sets 05:27:21 0° 53° (NE ) 2,180




      Ground Track Plot




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hopkins" <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 12:38 PM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Shuttle/ISS Visible Pass Saturday Morning


> 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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