RASC Hamilton Spot The Space Station tonight

[Wayne Herd]

Hi Roger, I saw the ISS with the Dragon capsule right behind it. Got a long exposure of the two together at 10:18:46 pm Saturday the 19th from Parry Sound.
They disappeared from view while the exposure was being taken.

Very cool.

Wayne Herd



On 2014-04-19, at 8:11 PM, Roger Hill wrote:

> Two good opportunities to see the International Space Station tonight, for those who'd like to have a look for it.
> 
> The first will peak (to the NNE, alt 28 degrees) at 20:43 (mag -1.7) and the other about 90 minutes later at 22:19, magnitude -2.7 : towards the West at 55 degrees above the horizon (look towards Jupiter).  The Dragon capsule may also be visible a few minutes behind the ISS.  
> 
> If you have binoculars, it should look really nice as it goes into the shadow.  Look for colour changes as it does.  Also, how far can you track it afterwards?
> 
> Go to Heavens-above.com for more details, and for other passes in the next few days...there's another good one tomorrow at mag -3.3, but Dragon will have docked with it by then.  Docking should occur around 7:15 am tomorrow morning.
> 
> 
> Roger Hill
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