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{ "url": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/JGA6LVQUBRSWQLJ2KEII6U7AEL4IIYBT/", "mailinglist": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/", "message_id": "2C221CEE834944B8BB1AE3DF9C57A24A@JamesPC", "message_id_hash": "JGA6LVQUBRSWQLJ2KEII6U7AEL4IIYBT", "thread": "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/thread/JGA6LVQUBRSWQLJ2KEII6U7AEL4IIYBT/", "sender": { "address": "jdanehy (a) cinci.rr.com", "mailman_id": null, "emails": null }, "sender_name": "Jim Danehy", "subject": "[amsat-bb] visual sighting of amateur satellites", "date": "2008-11-06T02:59:59Z", "parent": null, "children": [ "https://mailman.amsat.org/hyperkitty/api/list/[email protected]/email/PSSNT5FCDP5TBLRY4HF6BVYZGNWS6DXU/" ], "votes": { "likes": 0, "dislikes": 0, "status": "neutral" }, "content": "I have often seen the ISS in the evening sky. Its elevation is about 200 miles up. It is a fairly large object measuring more than 310 feet wide and 225 feet long. It is about 150 feet in height. It is too big to fit into a football field at 310' x 225'. It is quite the sight. A couple of weeks ago after I worked Richard I saw the ISS by stepping outside. It was a great dark morning and the ISS probably had the brightness on the solar scale of 1. The sun is -27 and the brightest object for us on earth. The -27 being the bright side ; as you go to a more positive number the object is dimmer.\n\nAO 51 is about 25 cm on a side. That is about the size of a sack of groceries. I do not know the exact height of AO 51 but I know it is higher than the ISS (200 miles). I think AO 51 is about 250 to 300 miles up. \n\nI believe it is impossible to get a visual sighting of something that small at that height. There are thousands of objects in orbit around our earth. A bag of groceries at 300 miles up would take more seeing ability than a human set of eyes can provide. \n\nJim W9VNE\n\n", "attachments": [] }