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Re: OT- ISS pass for Western California
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2015 Jun 21, 13:49 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2015 Jun 21, 13:49 -0700
Very cool! That should be quite spectacular, especially through binoculars. There's one anomaly in the heavens-above.com simulation: it does not include the Moon's parallax in altitude so the Moon will be about 0.7° lower in the sky than displayed in their satellite pass prediction chart. That won't change things much, but if you were to try to drive to a location east of Palo Alto where the ISS would be seen a little lower in the sky, it might appear to be a direct hit in the heavens-above simulation but it wouldn't work out.
Frank Reed
