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The ISS has started to be visible in the evening. In fact for the few days, it will be visible for each pass all night long.
Also, anyone up for social distance observing on Friday? Looks like it may be clear. To be socially distant, not sure how many can be at like Root River. I was thinking perhaps going there.
Jeff
Dean and I are planning on Eagle Bluff tomorrow (Friday) night. Randy perhaps too. Lots of space there!
Barb, so Eagle Bluff is open? Was wondering if they would let anyone in there or not. Eagle Bluff does sound pretty good. Please let us know.
Ok, I plan to be there. See you then.
ISS passes:
Start 9:25 from S to E, doesn't get too high, mag -2.5
Start 23:01 from WSW to NNW, max of 58 degrees, mag -3.2.well, i hope all had a good night? reports are always appreciated.
i hope we have the same weather next Friday as that's the day i
took off work for the new moon 😉
clear skies, jimJim, too bad you couldn't have made it on Friday. It was a great night. There were 5 of us: Dean, Barb, Randy, Dave, and me. Nice and clear night and no dew! Couldn't believe there was no dew, usually some will build.. at least no dew up until I left. I left about midnight and Dean, Barb, and Randy were still there. The first 2 ISS passes were spectacular, I don't know how long others stayed or if they saw the other passes. There was going to be 5 visible passes that night. All in all a glorious night.
JeffDean and I were there until about 2am, when high clouds started to come in. We didn?t see any other ISS passes. ☹️ However we were there long enough to see Jupiter and Saturn rise, and we believe we had a gegenschein sighting! (Right after Randy left, 🙂). Other discoveries included a probable sighting of Barnard?s Star.
Hopefully we?ll get a good observing night this weekend too!
Looks like it is clearing up. Anyone up to getting a little moon shine and cool weather tonight? Root River or Keller?
I'm just going to stick around at home tonight.. but… looks like it is supposed to stay clear into tomorrow night. Anyone interested in socially distance observing tomorrow night, Saturday? Plenty of moon and looks like again pretty cool.
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