Because of high cirrius clouds, I didn't bother to pull out the camera. Nonetheless, the ISS passed over my OP in the avenues about 1 minute after the predicated SkyCal time at a low altitude 25 deg angle on a south to east track. I used a shortwave radio tuned to the NTS time broadcast for a time reference. The ISS was clearly visible through the high clouds and was between 0-1 mags, dimmer than Mars but brighter than alp Aries. You really get a sense of the term "faster mover" and "topocentric position" as the ISS barrels by at a low horizon angle. At 5:00am, the stars of the Peg Great Square were visible at the zenith and in the transition between astronomical twilight and nautical twlight. There are three more passes in the next few days - all of which may be clouded out based on current conditions - are listed below. The next best pass is tomorrow morning, 8/11 at 5:25am, when the ISS will possibly brighten to -2.0 mags, on a good near zenith track. Although I do not have a precision track for the pass, it looks like a wide-angle lens could catch both the ISS and Mars in the same frame. The Saturday morning track also features brightening to about -2.0 mags. But all this is tenuous due to the current monsoon weather pattern. - Canopus56(Kurt) ======================= Pass data for 3 more passes through Saturday Times are MDT, not UTC. Thursday 11 August 2005 5h25m45s ISS Appears 5h24m14s -0.9m az:228.0d SW h:25.8d Transit 5h25m45s -1.9m az:142.5d SE h:82.1d Disappears 5h30m44s 6.3m az: 54.6d NE 5h26m27.40s ISS Close to Capella, Alp Aur (SAO 40186, HIP 24608 HD 34029), mag=0.1. Separation: 0.541d Position Angle: 355.2d Good zenithal track on star chart Nautical twilight: 5:27am Sunrise: 6:33am Friday 12 August 2005 5h52m31s ISS Appears 5h49m58s 0.3m az:267.1d W h:11.0d Transit 5h52m31s -0.5m az:331.7d NNW h:31.3d Disappears 5h57m22s 5.7m az: 48.6d NE Good zenithal track on star chart Nautical twilight: 5:28 Sunrise: 6:34am Saturday 13 August 2005 4h43m45s ISS Transit 4h43m45s --.-m az:323.5d NW h:85.2d Appears 4h44m00s -1.7m az: 38.6d NE h:71.9d Disappears 4h48m44s 5.3m az: 53.7d NE Partial good zenithal track on star chart Nautical twilight: 5:29am Sunrise: 6:35am __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com