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

Saw it nicely from Fountain Hills.  Movement was nearly too fast to 
follow easily in 10x50 binoculars.  Right on schedule, including the 
fade into the Earth's shadow. It was brighter than Aldebaran (which it 
passed by closely).  My friends were impressed!
Thanks again for the heads up, Randy!
Gene Lucas
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Jeff Hopkins wrote:

>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:
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>>Randy Peterson wrote:
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>>> 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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