Hi all, This Sunday morning (29th) at 4:01 UT (6:01 am local time) I had a pass of the ISS and the Cygnus COTS demo, at an elevation of 40 degrees in the south. ISS and Cygnus turned out to be quite close already, with a ~15 second difference in pass time. Cygnus very briefly attained magnitude +3 just after emerging from eclipse and was visible by the naked eye, but then quickly lost brightness. By the time the pair was in Orion (where my camera was pointed), I could no longer see the Cygnus by the naked eye. The trail of the Cygnus on the image was very faint, so I had to do some hefty post-editing of the image in order to bring it out better. Hence, this is not my best picture, but I am happy to have it nevertheless. The image can be seen here: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.nl/2013/09/iss-and-cygnus.html A bright ISS and a very faint Cygnus are traversing the area of Orion's belt and the Orion nebula on the image. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@langbroek.org Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Twitter: @Marco_Langbroek ----- _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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