space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 6:39 pm
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
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Re: space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 7:07 pm
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.
Re: space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 7:16 pm
Oh Bu****, - missed it 
Re: space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 8:32 pm
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.
Re: space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 8:38 pm
Re: space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 9:19 pm
International Space Station Orbit Data -
http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx ... t=0&tz=CET
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http://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx ... t=0&tz=CET
Images below will change - so hit your browser refresh button!
Re: space station
Posted: Sun 14 Mar, 2010 9:39 pm
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.
Re: space station
Posted: Mon 15 Mar, 2010 2:52 am
Cool vid!
Re: space station
Posted: Mon 15 Mar, 2010 6:15 pm
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!!
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!!
Re: space station
Posted: Mon 15 Mar, 2010 7:21 pm
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.
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.
Re: space station
Posted: Mon 15 Mar, 2010 8:00 pm
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!
http://www.heavens-above.com/newuser.asp
create an account and set up your coordinates and away you go!
Re: space station
Posted: Mon 15 Mar, 2010 8:07 pm
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!
Re: space station
Posted: Wed 17 Mar, 2010 10:21 am
passes for next few days from southern england (darkest essex really)
ISS - Visible Passes | Home | Info. | Orbit | Prev. | Next | Help |
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
ISS - Visible Passes | Home | Info. | Orbit | Prev. | Next | Help |
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