Re: ISS tonight maybe with the Shuttle following???

So if the Shuttle was ten degrees in front of the ISS, how many miles is that?
Bill Seiler

--- On Wed, 9/9/09, John R Pierce <pierce@No-Spam> wrote:

From: John R Pierce <pierce@No-Spam>
Subject: Re: [TAC] ISS tonight maybe with the Shuttle following???
To: "TAC mailing list" <tac@No-Spam>
Cc: julien.lecomte@No-Spam
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 1:00 PM

John R Pierce wrote:
> Julien Lecomte wrote:
>> They were about 5/6 degrees apart. Pretty cool sight!
>>   
>
> looked like more than that from here (santa cruz).  pass was at 7:43pm, and the leading dimmer object was still quite bright against the twilight, while the trailing brighter one was really bright.      My guess was about 10 degrees, about as wide as my flattened hand (including thumb) at arms length.  I have XL hands.

I just measured my hand as I used it as a distance gauge (4.5") and the distance from eye to outstretched hand (25") and google tells me "atan(4.5/25) in degrees" == 10.2 degrees.

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