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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_27514_8109767.1201820132999 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thanks Sherman, Just had a great look from our S. facing driveway - indeed the very bright and fast-moving ISS disappeared as you said it would - a neat experience. Richard On Jan 31, 2008 4:26 PM, Sherman Williams <shermw@xcountry.tv> wrote: > 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 > > > -- ################# Dr.Richard Stern, 70 Exhibition St. Kentville, NS, Canada B4N 4K9 Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_27514_8109767.1201820132999 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thanks Sherman,<br><br>Just had a great look from our S. facing driveway - indeed the very bright and fast-moving ISS disappeared as you said it would - a neat experience.<br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 4:26 PM, Sherman Williams <shermw@xcountry.tv> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style=""> 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></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. </div> <div><br></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. 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. </div> <div><br></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). Light from Betelgeuse requires about 500 years to reach us (520 ly away from us).</div> <div><br></div><div>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 </div> <font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br><div> <span style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 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-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><div> Sherman Williams</div><div>shermw@xcountry.tv</div><div><br></div></span></div><br></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>#################<br> Dr.Richard Stern, <br>70 Exhibition St.<br>Kentville, NS, Canada<br>B4N 4K9<br><br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T0<br><br>rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca<br> rbstern@xcountry.tv
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