I went out to watch last night's ISS pass, and saw the Shuttle on the same track a couple of minutes ahead of ISS too.
This evening's best pass takes ISS into eclipse before it reaches its highest elevation at 21:26 BST.
Tomorrow evening there's a reasonable ISS pass between 20:11 and 20:16 BST.
Sunday evening there's a good ISS pass between 20:35 and 20:42 BST.
Monday's best pass is just after 21:00 BST.
So Rick, what part of the Sky you looing in and at what time, It did start to cloud over about 10:30 round my way.
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Thanks Rick.
How on earth did I manage to miss these? :oops:
Typically, from here, ISS rises to the west and sets to the east, more or less. When it's illuminated ISS is too bright to miss against a dark sky. Last night's was at about 9pm, rising a bit south of west, and at highest elevation (about 50 degrees) just east of south. They both passed very close to Altair. The following, extracted from http://www.chocky.myzen.co.uk/oas/predictiss.txt (all times below are UTC, not BST), has been chopped to leave only the passes I mentioned.
Date Rising at Peak elevation Setting Height Satellite
Y M D Time Az. Time Az. El Time Az. (peak) Name
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090910 19:56:54 240 20:01:40 158 48 20:06:33* 77 ISS
090911 20:21:32 256 20:26:18* 173 81 20:31:18* 81 ISS
090912 19:11:01 241 19:15:54 154 50 19:20:47* 77 ISS
090913 19:35:39 257 19:40:25 201 82 19:45:25* 81 ISS
090914 20:00:17 269 20:05:10 7 81 20:10:03* 89 ISSYou can get good specific predictions for your location from Heavens Above (http://www.heavens-above.com), provided you register.
Quote from: MarkS on Sep 11, 2009, 13:17:05How on earth did I manage to miss these? :oops:
Your mind was on Jupiter... :twisted: