[HCARC] ISS PASSES

[Harvey N. Vordenbaum]

Harvey,

Your next series of visible ISS evening passes will be December 2-5
this week (weather permitting).  The best one of these will be on
Thursday, December 3, a 40 degree peak elevation in the southeast
at 6:15:55 pm CST, moving from southwest to northeast.  You should
be able to first spot it approaching from the southwest a couple
of minutes before peak, and it will be brightest just after peak,
moving away toward the northeast.

The pass tomorrow night (Wednesday) should be good, too, a 79 deg
peak in the northwest at 7:08:21 pm CST, but it will fade into the
Earth's shadow only 20 seconds after peak then.  The table below
shows the times and directions for these.

Visible ISS passes for K5HV
Position: 30.00754 N, 99.15128 W.
All times and dates are CST.
Shadow entry computed for the umbra.

                   Rise                  Peak            Shadow Entrance
           -------------------   -------------------   -------------------
   DATE      TIME        AZ/EL     TIME        AZ/EL     TIME        AZ/EL
Wed 12/02   7:03:03 pm  225/ 0    7:08:21 pm  315/79    7:08:41 pm   15/68
Thu 12/03   6:10:44 pm  209/ 0    6:15:55 pm  130/40    6:18:42 pm   61/12
Fri 12/04   6:54:44 pm  246/ 0    6:59:48 pm  320/26    7:01:17 pm    1/19
Sat 12/05   6:01:55 pm  230/ 0    6:07:10 pm  315/58    6:11:05 pm   38/ 6

Gil, WA5NOM