[GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm!

[ERNEST KRAUS]

about the same brightness as Venus which was east of it. Pretty remarkable how much space it cover in such a short time. It looked like Mars south and east of it. It has a red appearance east of it.
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Subject: Re: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm!

Probably not the tool bag - you’d have needed binoculars. But thanks to Jim for pointing out another great activity for the GCARC.

At the clubhouse early this morning Greg W5DO and I made 11 meteor scatter contacts using the Flex 3000, the Elecraft amp running about 1200 watts and the 6 meter beam. Another shower is coming in early December that may be easier to work (peaking around 11 PM instead of 3 AM!) and we’ll be checking it out too.

https://www.space.com/international-space-station-spacewalk-lost-tool-bag-photo

73 de Jon WB2MNF

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Subject: Re: [GCARC] near direct overhead visible ISS pass - tonight 5:40pm!

That was a good pass!  I saw another smaller object pass overhead a minute
or two ahead of the ISS.  Any guesses on what it was? Could it have been...
the missing tool bag ???

DE K3TS

On Sat, Nov 18, 2023, 12:33 PM Jim n2gxj <jim.n2gxj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, if meteor bounce off the Leonids didn't give you a chance to look up,
> here is another!
> If clear skies tonight (and is looking good for that), there is a visible
> pass of the ISS tonight.
> Should be able to just go outside, face SW, and a bright dot will rise up
> from the horizon around 5:38, a couple minutes later will be passing near
> straight overhead at 5:40, and then it will set, disappearing into the
> Earth's shaddow in the NE a couple of minutes after that.
> It should be a very bright dot and easy to see tonight (.-3.8 for you
> amateur astronomers out there)
> Oh, and if you have an FM ham radio, turn your antenna horizontal (parallel
> to the ground and sideways to the visible pass) and tune to 437.8 Mhz FM
> (Tune a little higher in frequency on the dot's way up, a little lower on
> the dot's way down), with the squelch set to 0 (turn off squelch).
> On 437.8 Mhz, when the ISS is overhead you might just hear some chatter on
> the cross band repeater.  For bonus, if you have two radios, transmit on
> the second radio on 145.99 Mhz FM with a PL tone of 67 to try and make a
> contact with someone, while seeing if can hear your own voice on receive
> radio you have tuned to 437.8.
> Good luck!
> Jim
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