There was a beautiful pass on Sunday evening (7:10 PM CDT), with clear skies -- ISS passed just south of Chicago (only 344 km from my QTH), reaching - 2.4 magnitude (quite bright) and passing through the heart of the Cygnus consellation.

-2.419:09:4010NW 19:12:3187WSW19:13:5527SE

Tonight's pass is will be same magnitude, but about 50 minutes earlier

23 Oct-2.418:20:2410NW 18:23:1588WNW18:26:0810SE

HAVE FUN -- LOOK for STS-120 Space Shuttle Discovery -- about thirteen minutes later in the "Race to Catch ISS"

23 Oct-1.118:33:1310WNW18:35:5464SW 18:38:3710SE

Greg w9gb

Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:44:54 -0500 From: "JoAnne Maenpaa" k9jkm@comcast.net Subject: [amsat-bb] Visual Opportunity for ISS - Tuesday To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Message-ID: 001001c8159c$6be85990$6601a8c0@familyroom Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Hi everyone,

There will be a good opportunity for visual sighting of the ISS today at around 18:20 Central time for the midwest USA. Check out http://www.heavens-above.com for the visual specifics for your area.

Clear skies! 73 de JoAnne K9JKM k9jkm@amsat.org