International Space Station

[TVC]

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?

There are actually many satellites to spot, in the couple of hours after sunset if you aclimate your eyes there is often one to see every couple of minutes traveling North/South. The brightest are the Irridium fleet which flare to be the brightest objects seen as the sun catches their arrays. Try a free app like ISS Detector to get the timings and live bearings on their position.

 

[Globalti]

We often go out and watch it in the evening. The miserable sods inside never wave back though.

 

[welsh dragon]

The sky is beautiful in the country. I live in the middle of nowhere. There are no street lights and the view of the stars is unbelievable.

 

[TheDoctor]

I remember driving out into the sticks to look at Hale-Bopp when that was around.
fark.
Me.
Ragged.

 

[welsh dragon]

9.03pm tonight I can see it again. Yayyyyyy

 

[TheDoctor]

Hale-Bopp? No, that's way past Neptune by now.
I'm gonna be out on a ride at 9pm, so I should see the Station.
If I'm not in a pub by then.

 

[AndyRM]

I should be able to see it tonight at 9.04 or 10.39. What does all this 11 over WSW mean though? Look West and South a bit?

 

[Archie_tect]

100% overcast here... boo.

 

[welsh dragon]

100% overcast here... boo.

Oh no. It was cloudy here last night so didn't see it.

 

[TheDoctor]

I should be able to see it tonight at 9.04 or 10.39. What does all this 11 over WSW mean though? Look West and South a bit?

Yes, essentially. If you're looking even vaguely in the right direction, it's the fairly fast shiny thing.

 

[AndyRM]

Yes, essentially. If you're looking even vaguely in the right direction, it's the fairly fast shiny thing.

Cheers! Hopefully the cloud will have blown away a bit by then. I'll give it some on my way to badminton which should help.

 

[Tim Hall]

So what was that fainter one following it?


Edit: Google suggests it could well have been a supply craft. How cool is that?

 

[Headgardener]

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.

Green with envy.

 

[Stephen Piper]

Yes, definitely a fainter object in pursuit.

 

[TheDoctor]

Probably a Russian Progress supply vessel that undocked recently.
It was too cloudy for me to see anything, even though I was outside at 9 pm.
Outside a pub out in the sticks, in fact