A lost son and a heavenly home
tl;dr - On the evening of Sunday, 17.11.24, the International Space Station ISS had a favourable flyby over our hometown Bruneck. Our observation of the event was extraordinarily thrilling and at least a partial success. After reading about a successful hunt for the ISS by our friend Sebastian Voltmer in "Sterne und Weltraum" 11/24, I sent out a call for volunteers to follow Sebastian's example on the evening of Sunday, November 17, 2024. When the time came, I was astounded by the number of students who flocked to the "torretta", the observatory of the Istituto Pluricomprensivo Brunico . Altogether, we were nine people crammed into the small space in the dome - even Felix showed up, a "long-lost son" who had not taken part in any of our activities for years. The "ISS crew", I mean the crew that hunted down the ISS. The passage of the space station, currently home to seven astronauts, was scheduled for 18:34 CET, but we met more than an ho...