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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_8EuKSARbsMB6KuQUk8bc2w) Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Thanks, Sherman! Funny thing about the world of physics: it happened just like Sherm said it would! I got outside just in time, and, despite light pollution and terrible icy footing in our driveway and neighborhood, I had great views of it, and, just as it passed between Mars and Betelgeuse, it quickly dimmed and then was snuffed out like a candle and gone. Cheers fro= m Jim about 7 minutes after the event. ---------- From: Sherman Williams <shermw@xcountry.tv> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:26:50 -0400 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] Space Station Passes Between Mars and Orion Tonight 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.=A0 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 Bot= h 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 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). ISS makes a number of good passes during the next two weeks. Check the schedule here:=A0http://web.mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/ISS_Page.html=A0 Sherman Williams shermw@xcountry.tv --Boundary_(ID_8EuKSARbsMB6KuQUk8bc2w) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Thanks, Sherm! re Space Station Passes Between Mars and Orion Tonigh= t</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Thanks, Sherman! Funny thing about the world of physics: it happened = just like Sherm said it would! I got outside just in time, and, despit= e light pollution and terrible icy footing in our driveway and neighborhood,= I had great views of it, and, just as it passed between Mars and Betelgeuse= , it quickly dimmed and then was snuffed out like a candle and gone. C= heers from Jim about 7 minutes after the event.<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>Sherman Williams <shermw@xcountry.tv><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:26:50 -0400<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>[NatureNS] Space Station Passes Between Mars and Orion Toni= ght<BR> <BR> 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.<BR> <BR> 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<BR> <BR> What is really interesting is that seconds later the light from ISS gets ec= lipsed 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 o= wn light, the result of nuclear fusion. =A0<BR> <BR> The spacestation is passing just off the south and eastern shore of N.S.( a= bout half a length of N.S. offshore), about 380 km above Earth surface. We s= ee it almost real time. Light from Mars is taking about 6 minutes to reach u= s (about 77 percent of the Sun's distance from us). =A0Light from Betelgeuse r= equires about 500 years to reach us (520 ly away from us).<BR> <BR> ISS makes a number of good passes during the next two weeks. Check the sche= dule here:=A0http://web.mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/ISS_Page.html=A0<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> Sherman Williams<BR> shermw@xcountry.tv<BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_8EuKSARbsMB6KuQUk8bc2w)--
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