[Noted at 9:51 EDT ... heads up in 30 minutes] Especially bright, high pass of Space Station over Ann Arbor at 10:22 EDT tonight. [map of ground track plot]
Skies Over Ann Arbor
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Voxphoto, assuming cloud cover permits viewing, can you give us a report on how bright it was?
It was very bright. Thanks for the tip.
A photo of the station,Twittered out by Phil Dokas: [link]. In the photos, it’s tiny, but bright enough to discern.
Glad you all enjoyed… Bookmark this link for future passes:
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…The next high & bright pass is this Monday at ~9:40
As for “how bright” …when it’s high enough to see, it’s always brighter than Venus (currently the bright “star” in the western sky at dusk). It looks almost like a plane gliding over–however, no colors and no blinking lights.
When it passes into earth’s shadow, it will dim out and disappear within a few seconds.
It was kind of funny, I was at Shadow Art Fair at Corner Brewery tonight out in the beer garden. The films were quite late so I checked my RSS feeds and read this post literally at 10:21.
Please pardon my crappy photo, though the fact that you can see it at all (iPhone camera) is a testament to how bright it was. Very bright and surprisingly fast moving (as you can see in that ground track plot, it was visible in PA just a minute later).
Oops, my mistake above: In magnitude terms Venus is slightly brighter, at -4 point something. But perceptually it doesn’t look that way, when Venus is further down in the haze near the horizon.