[AZ-Observing] Re: [EVAC] ISS overpass -- Web resource for predictions

Great show. Amazingly bright. I could almost see some structure if 
the ISS with my binoculars. A real treat. Thanks for the heads up.

Jeff

At 15:12 -0700 3/26/05, gene lucas wrote:

>Randy Peterson wrote:
>
>>  Saturday night the 26th, the International Space Station will pass
>>  directly over the metro Phoenix area.  Look to the northwest horizon
>>  at about 7:25 pm.  It will take about 5 minutes for it to pass
>>  overhead and disappear on the southeast horizon.  It is about as
>>  bright as the star Sirius.
>>   It goes too fast to track with a normal telescope, but it is fun to
>>  follow it with binoculars.  If you don't have binoculars, naked eyes
>>  work good too.
>>   Randy Peterson

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