[AZ-Observing] Re: Favorable HST Passes for Arizona

For you early risers the ISS makes several passes this week as well. Two are 
pretty well placed and one is very well placed passing within 5 deg of the 
zenith.
23rd      0614-0620 42deg
25th      0549-0555 86deg
27th      0527-0530 42deg

I wonderIf anyone'll still be awake Saturday morning at AZ city to see the 
good one :)

Rick

In a message dated 10/22/2003 16:01:00 US Mountain Standard Time, 
tpolakis@xxxxxxx writes:


> Heavens Above indicates that there will be favorable passes of HST over 
> Arizona every evening for the next week or so.  They happen at roughly 
> the same time, too.  Look south between 7:10 and 7:20, and you're bound 
> to see it moving west-to-east, about halfway to the zenith.
> 
> Tomorrow's (10/23) event is particularly interesting for Phoenix, as the 
> star map shows it passing directly over Mars just before entering the 
> earth's shadow.  The angular size of Mars and HST should be roughly the 
> same, so the two in one high-power field may make for a very interesting 
> photo op.  HST will be many tens of times fainter than Mars, and moving 
> rapidly, so maybe not.
> 
> Go to www.heavens-above.com for more detail.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 


Rick Tejera
Editor SACnews
Saguaro Astronomy Club
Phoenix, Arizona
SaguaroAstro@xxxxxxx
www.saguaroastro.org


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