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rfmcdonaldblogTO's Derek Flack reports on something I would like to see.
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The International Space Station is going to be a familiar sight in Toronto skies over the next two weeks, as it makes as many as 17 visible passes above the city between tonight and October 18. During many of these fly-overs, it will be one of the brightest objects in the sky.
Having the ISS pass overhead isn't entirely rare, but having so many opportunities to see it fly overhead is certainly a treat, especially at the magnitude of brightness that's been predicted. For tonight's pass, which will take place in the northwestern sky, the space station will be just a little dimmer than the brightest star in the Earth's sky, Sirius.
On other passes to come over the next 12 days, it will be far brighter. Sirius has an apparent magnitude of −1.47, while the ISS will appear as bright as −2.8 on October 15. The lower the number on the apparent magnitude scale, the brighter an object is. For reference, the maximum brightness of Mars is −2.91.
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