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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_4GRro73yBlc7oenxtO/Zhw) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT A beautiful sight! To think that there are people in it. Thanks Sherman from Halifax, in a clear sky. Don Don MacNeill donmacneill@eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: Sherman Williams To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 7:39 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Space Station Pass tonight (Aug 29) The Space Station makes a very nice high pass over Avonport tonight. Will be at its highest at 9:07 p.m., slightly north of directly overhead (a neck breaker). It comes out of the WNW a couple of minutes before that and should be visible for nearly 2 minutes after. It hits Earth's shadow low in the ESE at 9:09. Depending on your location it comes up through the Big Dipper handle and departs through the east corner of the Summer Triangle. The 3 Summer Triangle stars should just popping into view by the time of ISS pass. Vega (the brightest), along with Deneb, are stars essentially overhead. The 3rd star, Altair, in Aquilla the Eagle, is nearer the south horizon (but still nice and high). ISS will pass nearest Deneb, the tail of Cygnus the Swan. Those three bright stars make up a large triangle that dominates the higher portion of the summer sky. If you take this link http://web.mac.com/sherm39/Site/HeavensAboveLink.html you can select a place nearest your location. The link shows a diagram of Earth showing the current position of ISS at the time you make the link. Now click on ISS under Satellites and up comes the current schedule of visible passes. Especially note the Time and altidude and direction of the Max. part of the pass. Clicking on the date in the current part of the schedule gives a star map with the ISS track across the sky. At this point you can also get a map showing the Ground Track (places on the ground that would see the ISS go directly overhead). Currently there is a crew of 6 onboard the station http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Cheers. Hope someone gets to see the pass. Sherman --Boundary_(ID_4GRro73yBlc7oenxtO/Zhw) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19120"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A beautiful sight! To think that there are people in it. Thanks Sherman from Halifax, in a clear sky.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Don</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Don MacNeill<BR><A href="mailto:donmacneill@eastlink.ca">donmacneill@eastlink.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=shermwms@eastlink.ca href="mailto:shermwms@eastlink.ca">Sherman Williams</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=naturens@chebucto.ns.ca href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, August 29, 2011 7:39 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] Space Station Pass tonight (Aug 29)</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>The Space Station makes a very nice high pass over Avonport tonight. Will be at its highest at 9:07 p.m., slightly north of directly overhead (a neck breaker). It comes out of the WNW a couple of minutes before that and should be visible for nearly 2 minutes after. It hits Earth's shadow low in the ESE at 9:09. Depending on your location it comes up through the Big Dipper handle and departs through the east corner of the Summer Triangle. </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>The 3 Summer Triangle stars should just popping into view by the time of ISS pass. Vega (the brightest), along with Deneb, are stars essentially overhead. The 3rd star, Altair, in Aquilla the Eagle, is nearer the south horizon (but still nice and high). ISS will pass nearest Deneb, the tail of Cygnus the Swan. Those three bright stars make up a large triangle that dominates the higher portion of the summer sky. </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>If you take this link <A href="http://web.mac.com/sherm39/Site/HeavensAboveLink.html">http://web.mac.com/sherm39/Site/HeavensAboveLink.html</A> you can select a place nearest your location. The link shows a diagram of Earth showing the current position of ISS at the time you make the link. Now click on ISS under Satellites and up comes the current schedule of visible passes. Especially note the Time and altidude and direction of the Max. part of the pass.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Clicking on the date in the current part of the schedule gives a star map with the ISS track across the sky. At this point you can also get a map showing the Ground Track (places on the ground that would see the ISS go directly overhead).</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Currently there is a crew of 6 onboard the station <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html">http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html</A></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Cheers. Hope someone gets to see the pass.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Sherman</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_4GRro73yBlc7oenxtO/Zhw)--
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