I don't know what you can make of it photograhically but over the next few days a number of observers can expect to see the ISS pass closely by comet Swan. As an example on Tuesday, 31-OCT-06 the ISS will pass directly in front of comet Swan along a line from south of Birmingham and north of London, England (17:48:38 UTC) via Antwerp, Belgium and Cologne, Germany (17:49:42) to Plzen, Czech Republic 17:50:44. (It's still fairly bright in England at the time for the comet though.) A few hours later Vancouver, Canada gets the honour at 2:58:30 UTC, 1-NOV-06. It's not as critical as a solar transit - you can easily be 50 km away from the line and still see an interestingly close pass. It is probably best if you check whether over the next few days the ISS passes through the constellation Hercules as viewed from your location and maybe take a closer look with a planetarium program to see how the pass will look like to get you prepared for it. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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