ISS Amateur Radio Status: April 11, 2008
By Miles Mann WF1F, MAREX-NA (Manned Amateur Radio Experiment, North American Division)
Hi all: ISS Visible: The ISS will be visible from New England and most of North America for the next two weeks in the Evening hours.
Tonight Friday night, there is a good pass around 8pm est.
If you do not have a tracking program, please check the NASA web pages for tracking and Visibility data. There have been several good reports of very bright reflections from ISS.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html
From this link you can enter you Country, State and
city.
To see the ISS, find a dark hill. Pick a Pass Minutes duration 3 minutes or greater, such as Sunday April 6th at 7:46 pm. The look North-North West at 7:46 pm. The ISS will pop out of the horizon haze around the posted time. Then pass towards the North, eventually going towards North East.
Boston passes
ISS Fri Apr 04/08:37 PM 3 13 11 above NNW 11 above NE ISS Sat Apr 05/08:59 PM 2 18 12 above NNW 18 above NNE ISS Sun Apr 06/07:46 PM 3 13 10 above NNW 11 above NE ISS Sun Apr 06/09:21 PM < 1 22 18 above NNW 22 above NNW ISS Mon Apr 07/08:07 PM 4 18 10 above NNW 10 above ENE ISS Tue Apr 08/08:30 PM 3 31 18 above NNW 23 above ENE ISS Wed Apr 09/08:52 PM 1 82 33 above NW 72 above E ISS Thu Apr 10/09:13 PM 1 27 17 above W 27 above WSW ISS Fri Apr 11/08:00 PM 4 76 33 above NW 12 above ESE ISS Sat Apr 12/08:22 PM 3 32 25 above W 13 above SSE
www.marexmg.org
73 Miles WF1F MAREX-NA
Until we meet again
DOSVIDANIYA Miles WF1F
--- W6MU w6mu@comcast.net wrote:
There was a visible pass of the ISS this morning over northern California. It first became visible at about 50 degrees elevation looking to the south. It was a descending pass from the NW to the SE.
The photograph is here: http://tjb.smugmug.com/photos/268828895_VC29r-O.jpg
It was not the most ideal night time photography conditions with a full moon on the right at about 25 degrees elevation, the glow in the lower left is from the city lights of the San Francisco bay area 30 miles to the south. Even though I had the SLR mirror locked up, and I was using a cable shutter release, the tripod I used is not stable enough for this type of long exposure.
73s Tim w6mu
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