space station

[mikeysaling]

anyone in southern england - iss goes over at 18.45 (5 mins time) 81 degrees hih south o head at 18.48 have a look wait for a few mins let me know

[mikeysaling]

well i missed it - too much cloud ! it will be back later at 20.22 wsw but only 25 degrees high! tomorrow it will track 19.11 to 19.16 at 54 degrees - higher and nearer to 19.11 in the west country.

[silvercleave]

Oh Bu****, - missed it

[mikeysaling]

ok saw the 20.22 pass nice and clear! will look again tomorrow - will be very bright magnitude -2.9 as this thing gets bigger it gets brighter and brighter - ill post to give an idea.

[mikeysaling]

This is why its so big

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss ... /flash.htm

[The Jolly Good Framer #1]

International Space Station Orbit Data -
http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx ... t=0&tz=CET

Images below will change - so hit your browser refresh button!

[mikeysaling]

excellent - from jolly good framers link to heavens above - you can work out the EXACT time the iss will be over your location!! - great stuff thanks JGF - and a JG astro man as well.

[Moglet]

This is why its so big

http://i.usatoday.net/tech/graphics/iss ... /flash.htm

Cool vid!

[mikeysaling]

ok chaps and chapesses tonight in the southern england between 7.10 and 7.15 pm (bout an hour from now) loook ssw and 54 degrees altitude. in the west country nearer to 10 past

track

http://www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.asp ... atid=25544


http://www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.asp ... atid=25544

http://www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.asp ... atid=25544

trying to get this to come up live as per above but it does not want to work!!

[Merlin]

Absolutely incredible.

We live down at The Lizard, on the cliffs, Eastern side looking out over Falmouth Bay.

Superb cloud free night. Visibility excellent. No stray or ambient lighting to interfere.

As predicted - 1913 a BIG bright light appears directly over us (so it seemed) and tracked SSW.
It was visible for some 4 plus minutes.

[mikeysaling]

yes - tonight managed to see it better than last night - albeit through the clouds - was nice and bright tonight! where you are thelizard is a superb location for this - there is no mistaking it when it comes over. If you go to the heavens above site you can set up your own personal location and predict all the passes - its very accurate

http://www.heavens-above.com/newuser.asp

create an account and set up your coordinates and away you go!

[mikeysaling]

forgot to mention there is another advantage of setting your own position - iridium flares - when a passing sattelite reflects to sun down to your location for a few seconds !! its a site to behold like a bright flare in the sky. daft b*****s like me try to photo them!! The accuracy of the predictions is amazing - wish id paid more attention to math at school!

[mikeysaling]

passes for next few days from southern england (darkest essex really)

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Search period start: 00:00 Wednesday, 17 March, 2010
Search period end: 00:00 Saturday, 27 March, 2010
Observer's location: saling, 51.9142°N, 0.4472°E
Local time zone: Greenwich Mean Time (UTC + 0:00)
Orbit: 342 x 352 km, 51.6° (Epoch Mar 16)

Click on the date to get a star chart and other pass details.


Date Mag Starts Max. altitude Ends
Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az.
17 Mar -2.7 18:24:24 10 W 18:27:13 53 SSW 18:30:03 10 ESE
17 Mar -0.8 20:00:17 10 WSW 20:01:59 15 SW 20:02:35 14 SSW
18 Mar -1.7 18:49:07 10 W 18:51:40 28 SSW 18:54:13 10 SE
19 Mar -0.6 19:14:17 10 WSW 19:15:54 14 SW 19:17:31 10 S
21 Mar -0.3 18:28:04 10 WSW 18:29:38 14 SW 18:31:11 10 S