Greetings fellow astrophiles,
We’ll be opening the observatory tonight with the Moon past half-full, making for observing conditions that strongly favor the Moon (obviously), Jupiter, and brighter clusters. It will be quite cold (so dress for mid-winter temperatures) and is predicted to be quite clear.
According to heavens-above.com, we’ll be having TWO passes of the International Space Station tonight, although we’ll only likely be able to see one of them. The better-seen of the two, starting at 7:43 p.m., will be low in the horizon from West to South, just below or between the radars of Corona Borealis, Hercules, Ophiuchus, and Sagittarius.
| Date | Mag | Starts | Max. altitude | Ends | ||||||
| Time | Alt. | Az. | Time | Alt. | Az. | Time | Alt. | Az. | ||
| 4 Nov | -3.3 | 18:06:50 | 10 | NW | 18:09:58 | 61 | NNE | 18:13:09 | 10 | ESE |
| 4 Nov | -0.6 | 19:43:40 | 10 | W | 19:45:49 | 17 | SW | 19:47:56 | 10 | S |