I agree he is awesome.
Sightings of the ISS (International Space Station)
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Just been out in the garden to have a look and caught a good sight of it.
First time I've tried to see it too, that was a good experience.
First time I've tried to see it too, that was a good experience.
Originally Posted by sodavlac:
“Just been out in the garden to have a look and caught a good sight of it.
First time I've tried to see it too, that was a good experience.”
“Just been out in the garden to have a look and caught a good sight of it.
First time I've tried to see it too, that was a good experience.”
Well done.
In some ways this is the best time of the year to view the ISS as it is visible throughout the night. If you wish you can get three or four sightings in a night.
Originally Posted by HenryGarten:
“Well done.
In some ways this is the best time of the year to view the ISS as it is visible throughout the night. If you wish you can get three or four sightings in a night.”
“Well done.
In some ways this is the best time of the year to view the ISS as it is visible throughout the night. If you wish you can get three or four sightings in a night.”
Yes, I noticed multiple passes on the website I used in to find out when it would be coming by.
I used the one below in the end (there's loads as I'm sure you know) as I found the maps (expandable if you click the ">" sign) and the brightness ratings useful indeed.
http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php
The 2am (rough time) pass looks like a good one in the early hours of Sunday.
Originally Posted by sodavlac:
“Yes, I noticed multiple passes on the website I used in to find out when it would be coming by.
I used the one below in the end (there's loads as I'm sure you know) as I found the maps (expandable if you click the ">" sign) and the brightness ratings useful indeed.
http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php
The 2am (rough time) pass looks like a good one in the early hours of Sunday.”
“Yes, I noticed multiple passes on the website I used in to find out when it would be coming by.
I used the one below in the end (there's loads as I'm sure you know) as I found the maps (expandable if you click the ">" sign) and the brightness ratings useful indeed.
http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php
The 2am (rough time) pass looks like a good one in the early hours of Sunday.”
Oh I really like that ISS spotter. I do not think I had seen that before.
The reason why we get many sightings in a night is that the plane of the orbit of the ISS is roughly parallel to the terminator. This the ISS remains in sunshine through the night.
Knocked up a very crude sextant type device to measure the angle of elevation of the top of my neighbour's roof so I can determine whether or not I'll be able to see any given particular pass from the back garden. Might be getting too into this already.
T'was a fun little Blue Peter style project and in conlusion I'm happy to announce that looking south, anything above about 24 degress will be viewable over their chimney stack from just outside my back door.
T'was a fun little Blue Peter style project and in conlusion I'm happy to announce that looking south, anything above about 24 degress will be viewable over their chimney stack from just outside my back door.
Saw it for the first time last night (thanks to Radio 5) - an awesome sight. Will it be visible again tonight?
I'll confess I haven't read all 124 pages, but you guys know there are ISS-spotting apps for your smartphones, right? Mine is called ISS Detector for Android.
Maybe if I upgrade to the paid version I'll get some evenings without clouds...
Maybe if I upgrade to the paid version I'll get some evenings without clouds...
Originally Posted by Dante Ameche:
“What's a smartphone ?”
“What's a smartphone ?”
It's like an abacus, but much, much better for hunting down the ISS. Also good for irate avian offensives, so I'm told.
Here is quite a nice ISS tracker. See ISS tracker
Originally Posted by LudwigVonDrake:
“Saw it for the first time last night (thanks to Radio 5) - an awesome sight. Will it be visible again tonight?”
“Saw it for the first time last night (thanks to Radio 5) - an awesome sight. Will it be visible again tonight?”
Yes it is going to be visible many times up to 19 June.
Luminaries - need your help....... went outside to view the 22:43-22:50 pass tonight (Corby, Northants - 52 29'18N 0 40'45W..... as per my best estimate - when the ISS was passing S thru E its path was intercepted by two other satellites (no navigation lights) travelling S -> N about 3 seconds apart (from intercepting ISS path) - any ideas what they may have been (first time I have ever seen 3 satellites in the same part of the night sky!!)
Originally Posted by Wobbly Steve:
“Luminaries - need your help....... went outside to view the 22:43-22:50 pass tonight (Corby, Northants - 52 29'18N 0 40'45W..... as per my best estimate - when the ISS was passing S thru E its path was intercepted by two other satellites (no navigation lights) travelling S -> N about 3 seconds apart (from intercepting ISS path) - any ideas what they may have been (first time I have ever seen 3 satellites in the same part of the night sky!!)”
“Luminaries - need your help....... went outside to view the 22:43-22:50 pass tonight (Corby, Northants - 52 29'18N 0 40'45W..... as per my best estimate - when the ISS was passing S thru E its path was intercepted by two other satellites (no navigation lights) travelling S -> N about 3 seconds apart (from intercepting ISS path) - any ideas what they may have been (first time I have ever seen 3 satellites in the same part of the night sky!!)”
Ah I am glad you said that as came here to see if anyone else had seen the same thing.
I only saw one other satellite but there could well have been two.
I looked on Stellarium and there was a satellite in the right place at the right time viz Meteor 1-1
The only problem is that meteor 1-1 was deorbited back in 2012.
Originally Posted by HenryGarten:
“Ah I am glad you said that as came here to see if anyone else had seen the same thing.
I only saw one other satellite but there could well have been two.
I looked on Stellarium and there was a satellite in the right place at the right time viz Meteor 1-1
The only problem is that meteor 1-1 was deorbited back in 2012.”
“Ah I am glad you said that as came here to see if anyone else had seen the same thing.
I only saw one other satellite but there could well have been two.
I looked on Stellarium and there was a satellite in the right place at the right time viz Meteor 1-1
The only problem is that meteor 1-1 was deorbited back in 2012.”
I saw the exact same thing - two very fast bright objects at almost 90 deg to ISS path (S thru E). (Bicester/Buckingham here) I couldn't find anything matching in Stellarium. Was most odd.
Originally Posted by Skyclad:
“I saw the exact same thing - two very fast bright objects at almost 90 deg to ISS path (S thru E). (Bicester/Buckingham here) I couldn't find anything matching in Stellarium. Was most odd.”
“I saw the exact same thing - two very fast bright objects at almost 90 deg to ISS path (S thru E). (Bicester/Buckingham here) I couldn't find anything matching in Stellarium. Was most odd.”
That is at least five (two elsewhere) who saw this from widely varying parts of the country.
Well, don't know the exact terminology but we've watched it go over on two separate occasions this month, so far, and on one of those nights there was something else going by at a different trajectory. We tend to look up at the sky when giving the dogs a late night walk. The 'other' object was much too high to be a 'plane so I'm presuming we were lucky enough to see a satellite and the ISS at the same time.
Originally Posted by dorydaryl:
“Well, don't know the exact terminology but we've watched it go over on two separate occasions this month, so far, and on one of those nights there was something else going by at a different trajectory. We tend to look up at the sky when giving the dogs a late night walk. The 'other' object was much too high to be a 'plane so I'm presuming we were lucky enough to see a satellite and the ISS at the same time.”
“Well, don't know the exact terminology but we've watched it go over on two separate occasions this month, so far, and on one of those nights there was something else going by at a different trajectory. We tend to look up at the sky when giving the dogs a late night walk. The 'other' object was much too high to be a 'plane so I'm presuming we were lucky enough to see a satellite and the ISS at the same time.”
Seeing more than two objects is known but they are usually either ahead or behind the ISS not moving across its path.
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