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SPACE STATION PASS: The sky is looking fairly clear just now so perhaps we may see a pass of the Space Station tonight (Nov 1) out of the NW about 18:43, until it hits Earth's shadow edge at 18:45:26 about 47 degrees above the northern horizon. The ISS should be quite bright. COMET SWAN: Also there is a binocular comet (SWAN) well placed in the WNW, probably at its best between 7 and 8 p.m., southwest of the bright star Vega, east of the "Keystone" of Hercules. Go to hhttp://www.heavens-above.com/main.asp? lat=45.100&lng=-64.250&alt=54&loc=Avonport&TZ=AST for a star map: ASTRONOMY>Comet SWAN, you may also want the whole Sky Chart to locate Vega(bright star in Vega, for between 7 p.m and 8 p.m. In binoculars, the comet appears as a nice, fuzzy, star, between magnitude 5 and 6 (the brightness of the Moon may make it a more challenging sighting). A photo and more info can be seen at http://www.spaceweather.com/ , bring up the archive page for Oct 30(settings on the right hand side of the current page). TRANSIT of MERCURY: Heads up on the rare transit of Mercury on Nov 8th, seen from N.S. beginning about 15:00 (3 p.m.) Go to http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/ y2006/20oct_transitofmercury.htm for some information on it. More later. Sherman Williams sherm@glinx.com website: http://www.glinx.com/~sherm
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