International Space Station

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Bugger! I fell asleep during the Chelsea match and just woke up
Did I miss much? In the footie and in the sky...

 

[fossyant]

I don't know.
If they crossed the ISS's path at 90 degrees or so, then that's something like a polar orbit.The ISS isn't quite over the Equator, but it's not far off an equatorial orbit. Could be one or other of the earth observation ones - there's quite a few looking at various stuff.

It's the alien's ..... or a chinese bloody lantern or two....

 

[jayonabike]

If your on twitter follow @virtualastro. He always tweets when the iss is going to pass over and he's also a bit of a cyclist.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

It's the alien's ..... or a chinese bloody lantern or two....

No, it's the Lexx. Here's hoping Xev Bellringer comes down to pay us a visit!

 

[buggi]

I'm moving back to my flat on Thursday. The one thing i will really miss is my ride home under a star filled night sky, being able to clearly pick out Mars, Venus and Jupiter and watching the ISS pass over. Lost count of the amount of times the I've nearly ended up in a ditch bcoz I'm looking at the stars. Then again... I could go via Kenilworth

 

[fossyant]

If your on twitter follow @virtualastro. He always tweets when the iss is going to pass over and he's also a bit of a cyclist.

Oooh, might be the same fella the neighbour at our caravan follows. She's always out when it goes over. Thie kids on the caravan site are usually runing about, and we all say, hang on kids, whats that - when you tell this kids what it is thay are like wow...... good stuff science like that... especially when you show them the phone app to prove it !!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Cool! Thanks for the heads up. That was great. But what were the other two lights that crossed its path at about a 90 degree angle but going much faster? There was no plane noise - couple of turbo seagulls maybe?

I don't know.
If they crossed the ISS's path at 90 degrees or so, then that's something like a polar orbit.The ISS isn't quite over the Equator, but it's not far off an equatorial orbit. Could be one or other of the earth observation ones - there's quite a few looking at various stuff.

OK, based on Heavens-Above, I think they might have been CBERS2B and MetOpA.
They were going roughly South to North at the same time as ISS was going WSW to S.
They'd have been dimmer - I didn't see them, but I've got streetlights near my front garden.

 

[fossyant]

I'm moving back to my flat on Thursday. The one thing i will really miss is my ride home under a star filled night sky, being able to clearly pick out Mars, Venus and Jupiter and watching the ISS pass over. Lost count of the amount of times the I've nearly ended up in a ditch bcoz I'm looking at the stars. Then again... I could go via Kenilworth

We get OK nights in South Manchester, but there is loads of light polution. It's only when we went to see friends out in the middle of no-where about 50 miles from Ipswitch, that you realised how fantastic the sky is. No street lights. We'd walked to the pub, had a few bevvies, walked back, and I could have lay in the road watching the stars (wasn't a good idea). Amazing. Just shows what light pollution causes.

 

[sheddy]

I'm moving back to my flat on Thursday. The one thing i will really miss is my ride home under a star filled night sky, being able to clearly pick out Mars, Venus and Jupiter and watching the ISS pass over. Lost count of the amount of times the I've nearly ended up in a ditch bcoz I'm looking at the stars. Then again... I could go via Kenilworth

Hope it goes well. Has the nasty neighbour gone ?

 

[EltonFrog]

A load of us saw it last year on one of the FNRTttC to Whitstable. I for one was most impressed.

 

[TheDoctor]

A CTC ride I was on saw it a few summers ago, with a Shuttle approaching it from behind (oo-er!)
'Twas a clear and very dark night, and we were way out in the sticks

 

[MontyVeda]

Loved the way it faded into the earth's shadow.

that's why it faded... of course!

tried to take a few photos with 30sec exposures, but it looked like a vary vague mark on the lens.

Thanks for the heads up though @Doseone ... only spotted it the once and that was about twelve years ago.

I now have this page bookmarked

 

[buggi]

Hope it goes well. Has the nasty neighbour gone ?

i think he's gone now but so has my tenant and still the damage to sort. Meeting woman from council tomorrow to talk thro proposed works. Hopefully a new communal area will help me sell. Fingers crossed. Then i can save for my narrow boat and imagine what my sky will look like when I'm living on a pitch black canal.

 

[TheDoctor]

save for my narrow boat and imagine what my sky will look like when I'm living on a pitch black canal.

*envies*

 

[slowmotion]

A load of us saw it last year on one of the FNRTttC to Whitstable. I for one was most impressed.

A great sight, accompanied by the croaking of a large choir of frogs. Entirely splendid!