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--Apple-Mail-16-165711600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The space station is back in the evening sky and it seems like it may be a clear night tonight, Jan 31. Have a look. Shortly after 6:51 p.m. the ISS should be seen coming out of the southwest and reaching a peak of 49 degrees shortly after 6:52 p.m., nicely up in the east side of south, passing just above Orion. What is really interesting is that seconds later the light from ISS gets eclipsed from us when it enters the edge of Earth's shadow. As this happens, ISS is just below Mars (the brightest natural object, high in the SE), and just above Betelgeuse (the bright "armpit" star of Orion). Both Mars and Betelgeuse shine with reddish light. Mars by reflected sunlight, just like the space station. Betelgeuse is an old star, shining by its own light, the result of nuclear fusion. The spacestation is passing just off the south and eastern shore of N.S.( about half a length of N.S. offshore), about 380 km above Earth surface. We see it almost real time. Light from Mars is taking about 6 minutes to reach us (about 77 percent of the Sun's distance from us). Light from Betelgeuse requires about 500 years to reach us (520 ly away from us). ISS makes a number of good passes during the next two weeks. Check the schedule here: http://web.mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/ISS_Page.html Sherman Williams shermw@xcountry.tv --Apple-Mail-16-165711600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> The space station is back in the evening sky and it seems like it may be = a clear night tonight, Jan 31. Have a look.<div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Shortly after 6:51 p.m. = the ISS should be seen coming out of the southwest and reaching a peak = of 49 degrees shortly after 6:52 p.m., nicely up in the east side of = south, passing just above Orion.=A0</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>What is really interesting = is that seconds later the light from ISS gets eclipsed from us when it = enters the edge of Earth's shadow. =A0As this happens, ISS is just below = Mars (the brightest natural object, high in the SE), =A0and just above = Betelgeuse (the bright =A0"armpit" star of Orion). =A0 Both Mars and = Betelgeuse shine with reddish light. =A0Mars by reflected sunlight, just = like the space station. =A0 =A0 Betelgeuse is an old star, shining by = its own light, the result of nuclear fusion. =A0</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The spacestation is = passing just off the south and eastern shore of N.S.( about half a = length of N.S. offshore), about 380 km above Earth surface. We see it = almost real time. Light from Mars is taking about 6 minutes to reach us = (about 77 percent of the Sun's distance from us). =A0Light from = Betelgeuse requires about 500 years to reach us (520 ly away from = us).</div><div><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>ISS = makes a number of good passes during the next two weeks. Check the = schedule here:=A0<a = href=3D"http://web.mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/ISS_Page.html">http://web.mac= .com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/ISS_Page.html</a>=A0</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Sherman = Williams</div><div><a = href=3D"mailto:shermw@xcountry.tv">shermw@xcountry.tv</a></div><div><br = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></div></span></div><br></div></body></ht= ml>= --Apple-Mail-16-165711600--
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