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If evening skies clear in the next week or so, we’ll see a nice 
conjunction of the planet Mars (left) with the bright star Regulus (right). They will make a striking couple, less than a degree apart by this weekend. Look just to the left of due west after dark and halfway up the sky. 
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Frank do you have any information on when the next locally visible int'l space station pass is going to be? I linked to a website that either you or a reader had posted about it several months ago but, after an ISP change, lost it from my favorites list. How do YOU find out about these flyovers? Half the time it seems that I read your blog posting about it the day after it happens.
FR: What? A peek at the man behind the curtain? Well, allright. I watch for these things at Heavens-Above.com You don't have to register. Just enter your location and it will remain programmed to predict ISS flybys and much more for you. The next ISS flyovers I'll post will occur in the wee hours of June 9 and June 11. Not a good hour, but these will be very bright, and directly over B'more. Stay tuned.
Posted by: AVC | June 3, 2010 3:19 PM
I always do what the large floating head commands and "PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!"
. . . and thanks for the citing the site for sightings.
Outta'sight!!
FR: By the way, Mars and Regulus, the original topic of this post, were quite striking Sunday night, in a very clear night sky. Anybody else see them?
Posted by: AVC | June 5, 2010 12:15 AM