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#60 by Bubbinski on 15 Feb, 2008 02:26
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I'm going to get chances tomorrow and Sunday. I had a great pass tonight, BUT I was working and couldn't leave the office.
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#61 by Bubbinski on 16 Feb, 2008 05:17
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I saw ISS and Shuttle tonight, in the southern sky. Bright as or brighter than Jupiter despite being only 40-45 degrees in the sky. Definitely was brighter than Sirius or Mars. Only saw with naked eye....will get another chance Sunday and this time I'll observe with my new 11x56 binoculars. Also will have a visible pass of USA 193 that evening too.
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#62 by RafaelCE on 16 Feb, 2008 15:10
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Acording to HeavensAbove, tonight we start a series of eitght nights with passes between 6pm to 7:30pm, mostly below 0.3 magnitude and down to -1.8 in some cases. That means that we will be able to see de complex both docked and undocked, and the night before landing. We were not in that position since STS-117, coincidentally Atlantis too, so we are "proud, happy and thrilled"
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#63 by Lawntonlookirs on 16 Feb, 2008 15:25
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I am looking forward to tonight when at 6:35 the USA 193 will be in the SE sky and then at 6:37 the suttle and ISS will be in the Western sky.
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#64 by stockman on 16 Feb, 2008 22:56
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Nice northwest to southeast pass just now in Southern Ontario. As usual the station/shuttle complex was the brightest star in the sky. Looking forward to opportunities (and our local weather) this may be the last opportunity I have for viewing them together for the rest of this mission. Beautiful sighting!!
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#65 by Andrewwski on 16 Feb, 2008 23:43
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I just saw that one too. First (and probably last) clear day of the mission.
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#66 by astrobrian on 17 Feb, 2008 00:35
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Not a great shot, but one of the first with my new camera, will get the settings right soon enough As this is my first real camera if anyone has the settings they use, I am all ears, likewise if you want the settings i used for this shot
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#67 by Jester on 17 Feb, 2008 10:49
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Above ESTEC, on the 14th
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#68 by ntschke on 17 Feb, 2008 13:08
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We finally got a nice clear night (moon was a bit bright but I'll take what I can get) to go out and see the flyover. Beautiful, -2.2 magnitude, you couldn't miss if you wanted to. The Heavens Above track was almost dead on (accouting for slight varitions in lat/long for the center my town compared to where my house is). I got some great pics, unfortunately the exposure of the pass through Orion wasn't the best...too blurry and wrong exposure.
Check out the Prediction chart and the actual path. Timing was literally down to the second. I especially like it when neighbors wonder what the hell I'm doing out there...
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#69 by ntschke on 17 Feb, 2008 13:23
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Couple more...
#1 End of the pass, as panned down to catch it going towards the horizon. Nice, but not as cool as it would have been if I had it going through Orion with a much better exposure...
as in #2
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#70 by bkellysky on 17 Feb, 2008 13:36
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I saw the ISS/STS-122 last night about 6:40pm ET. Very bright. A bright blob with no particular shape in my 8x20 image stabilized binoculars. I didn't try for a photo since it was behind lots of trees.
USA-193 was predicted to be low in the south a few minutes before the ISS, but it was too low for me to see.
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#71 by Bubbinski on 18 Feb, 2008 06:37
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Saw ISS tonight just before 6:30, in the southern sky. It got distinctly brighter than Sirius (ISS got to something like -2 - I know it wasn't as bright as Venus would be) and you could BEGIN to make out more than a dot in the binoculars, like there was the start of a shape, but you couldn't see anything distinct.
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#72 by Zachstar on 19 Feb, 2008 00:04
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Spotted both Atlantis and ISS!
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#73 by mwfair on 19 Feb, 2008 16:10
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A group at Munich Public Star Observatory actually have video of the docking on Feb 9. Incredible:
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#74 by Citabria on 19 Feb, 2008 16:32
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Had my first chance to see ISS+Atlantis cross the face of the sun on Saturday. CalSky.com predicted crossing 5 miles from my house and the weather actually cooperated! Used 4.3" reflector with Mylar solar filter and waited nearly a minute after predicted time. Then, WHOOSH and it was gone in half a second. Just enough time to move my eye to it and see a slanted H shape. Not enough time to see detail or Atlantis. Prediction was off a bit - I was on the predicted centerline but the track across the sun was off-center.
Another crossing was predicted for yesterday, after undocking. Would have been cool to see both vehicles, but Michigan weather prevailed.
Anyone know whether CalSky gets accurate orbital elements? Are the public elements degraded for security reasons?
