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The sky will be clouding over sometime later today as tomorrow's "winter storm" approaches, but if the sky is still clear in the northwest where you are between 9:38 and 9:42 pm, you can once again catch the ISS. This time it passes really close to VENUS and the PLEIADES still together in the westward. VENUS is still just 3 degrees east of the PLEIADES and shortly after 9:38, the SPACE STATION will pass very close to Venus. For some all three objects, for a few seconds, willl be within one binocular field of view. Because the pass is later, Venus and the Pleadies will be a little lower toward the WNW horizon and the ISS ,at the peak of its pass, about 9:41, will be about 34 degrees above the NNW horizon. The pass will be visible until about 9:42:41 when it runs into Earth's shadow. Last evening I quite enjoyed the view of these three in the beautiful clear sky . The ISS passed very close to the bright stars of Orion, especially the western shoulder star, Bellatrix. Right on schedule I watched it disappear into Earth's shadow. I also got a couple of digital shots of the Pleiades and Venus in the same sky field. There are pprobably a few shared photos of the event on Spaceweather .com, I did not look yet to see if this is true. Sherman
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