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To: oh8eleven

Can you see the ISS with a telescope?


12 posted on 12/23/2013 10:14:12 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it. Period.)
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To: Mr. K

The ISS moves too fast to follow it with a telescope. You can see it with your naked eye. It looks like a bright star moving across the sky in only a few seconds.

And Jupiter is rising in the east at sunset while Venus is setting in the west. Jupiter is next to the two bright “twin” stars in Gemini.


13 posted on 12/23/2013 10:22:48 AM PST by zeebee (There are no coincidences.)
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To: Mr. K
Can you see the ISS with a telescope?
Not effectively, it moves across the sky pretty fast. When close to your location, it's very visible with just the naked eye.
Binoculars would help but really just make it a bigger bright spot in the sky.
19 posted on 12/23/2013 10:51:53 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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