Space Station Spotting

[RegMolehusband]

Slightly O/T but may I ask, what is reddish star/planet that has been just to the left of Jupiter for several weeks?

[nellyleelephant]

Betelgeuse I should think. It's a biggun.

[RegMolehusband]

Betelgeuse is top left of Orion, very red. This is a little finger's length from Jupiter

[jmorgan]

And hopefully it is going to blow in my lifetime.

[RegMolehusband]

Yes I'd like to see that too The star I'm referring to is Aldebaran, a red giant 68 light years away. Happy now.

[silverthorn2151]

Just a heads up that there are some nice passes coming up over the next few days if the sky is clear.

[central]

21:47 tonight.

[jmorgan]

Sods law. Welsh weather.

[silverthorn2151]

I think we caught that Welsh weather in London tonight.

As an aside, do any of you follow Commander Hadfield ( I think, I'll check in a moment) on twitter. He tweets from the ISS fabulous pictures of the Earth and gives details and answers to questions. Really interesting and the images are superb.

Edit: #cmdr_hadfield is his twitter name.

This is his latest picture, snowfields in Eastern Europe.



And one from a little while ago, you can see where we live on this busy little isle.

Edited by silverthorn2151 on Wednesday 10th April 22:22

[jmorgan]

Interesting stuff there. Show up the light pollution.

Edit, linky
https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/321760720...

Edited by jmorgan on Wednesday 10th April 22:24

[Eric Mc]

Excellent pass at 21.00 this evening.

[Elderly]

and probably the best I've ever seen at 21.43 this evening .

[BlackST]

Just seen it!
Quite happy I seen it

[hondafreek]

Anyone know when it will next be visible?

[tonyvid]

Not in the next 10 days. Have a look at this http://www.heavens-above.com/ enter your location and the sky is yours!

[FunkyNige]

You can watch them fix the coolant leak live
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
Even some live shots from the cameras on their helmets which is pretty cool.
The chatter over the radio is quite interesting too, "Move the big gold things out the way", and "you want to minimise the wobble deflection on bolts H2 and H3".

[Oily Nails]

That is seriously cool.

There are 2 humans bobbing around in the vacuum of space right this moment repairing (basically) a refrigeration circuit.


And here I am putting off throwing up some shelves

[Ace-T]

Wonder if the leak was due to the guitar being thrown about for this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb20ozOlKMk

[John87]

Soyuz is going to undock from ISS in a few minutes with Chris Hadfield and co on board.

Live on NASA TV of course

[escargot]

Safely landed in Kazakhstan