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From: TerryMosel@aol.com Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 17:09:06 EST Subject: ISS, Lecture, M&V, Jupsat Hi all, 1. The ISS, with Space Shuttle Endeavour attached, starts another series of evening passes for all observers in Ireland on 1 December (those in the far South may already have seen it this evening). Accurate details are on www.heavens-above.com but as a rough guide, for Belfast, the first visible pass (not a great one) will begin on Sunday evening at 18.46, the next on Monday evening at 17.51, and the next on Tuesday eveing at 18.29: observe about 5 to 10 minutes earlier the further South and West you are of Belfast. Subsequent ones will be higher and brighter. Dr David Asher of Armagh Observatory, and international Leonid predictions fame, (and the discoverer and 'donator' of asteroid 16693 Moseley!) will give a talk to the EAAC on Monday 2 December at 8pm in the Thompson School, Ballyrobert, Co Antrim. The title of his talk is "Surveying the Skies for Hazardous Asteroids", a subject on which he is a leading authority. Mine isn't a hazardous one, BTW! 3. Mars and Venus will be close together, with a lovely waning crescent moon, and Spica not far away, tomorrow morning, 1 December. Look in the SE any time from about 06.20, when they will still be quite low, to about 07.40, when the sky starts to get too bright. Mars will be closely above right of Venus, with the moon a similar distance above Mars, and Spica further away above right. Mars & Venus will be closest next week, with a minimum separation of 1.6 degrees, on 5 December. Venus reaches greatest brilliancy, at -4.7, only two days later, so it will totally outshine the much fainter Mars - by a factor of over 200! 4. A rare and interesting Jovian 'mutual satellite event' will occur on the evening of 5 December, when Europa will partially eclipse Io, from 23h 55m 9s to 24h 00m 38s. If you carefully compare Io's brightness with that of Europa before the event, and then at mid-eclipse, you should see the drop in brightness. From E to W the relative positions will be: Europa, Io, Jupiter, Callisto and Ganymede. Any telescope will show this event, and there are other better ones to come later on - more details later. Clear Skies, Terry Moseley
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