ISS pictures

From: G6GAK - Mike Tyrrell (g6gak@btinternet.com)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 15:45:25 PDT

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    Hi,
    We've been enjoying some warm weather and clear sky in the UK for the last
    day or so. This has come at just the right time for a series of early
    morning ISS passes. The first of these was 04:00 UTC 24th May and we
    obtained our best images yet. No time to do much image processing yet but
    the raw pictures are at
    
    http://www.btinternet.com/~mikejtyrrell/iss.htm  and
    
    http://freespace.virgin.net/philip.masding/
    
    The station displayed distinctly different attitudes during the pass. We are
    setting up for another attempt in a few hours time subject to the weather
    and ability to go to work with virtually no sleep!
    
    As a sideline have also observed the following Iridium flares (as predicted
    by HA) - hope to have 35mm pictures of some of these in due course
    
    22nd May 21:58 UTC Iridium 20 Mag -7
    22nd May 22:03 UTC Iridium 3  Mag -1
    23rd May 22:06 UTC Iridium 25 Mag -2
    24th May 22:00 UTC Iridium 47 Mag -4
    
    This last one was given as 26deg Alt by HA but seemed to be more like 35-40
    deg (the camera missed it as a result!)
    
    Mike Tyrrell & Philip Masding
    Manchester, UK
    53.275N  2.547W
    
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