Last ditch ISS/STS-88 obs
Bradley P. Allen (bpa@trivida.com)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 07:04:05 -0800
There haven't been many favorable passes of ISS for those of here in
Southern California during the current Shuttle mission, so in desperation I
tried this morning for a last shot at seeing the two prior to separation.
Against expectations, I found them using 15x45 binos during a 18 degree
elevation pass from N to ENE at 06:32 PDT, in the middle of civil twilight
with the Sun just -3.7 degrees below the horizon! Not a lot of stars to
compare it to against this kind of background, but an approach within 2
degrees of Vega showed the objects' brightness to be mag. 0.
Bradley P. Allen
Manhattan Beach, CA, USA
N 33.881 W 118.387 42 meters