Space Station Spotting
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Eric Mc said:
I have become a bit on an ISS spotting addict over the past six or so years. It was fun to watch Space Shuttles chasing and undocked from the ISS. Sadly, that is all ended now but, as has been said, sometimes you can see unmanned supply vessels chasing the ISS.
Same here - just watched a really good pass whilst out looking for Perseid shooting stars - saw one beauty before clouds came over. Staying up hoping for clear skies though.Apologies if repost, this seems like the most likely thread for it. I know we've had the live stream from inside the ISS posted before, but I'd not seen this one. It's the High Definition Earth Viewing stream, live views of the earth from the ISS. Simply stunning on a large monitor.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload
There are a couple of different views it switches between, and you won't see anything if it's dark!
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload
There are a couple of different views it switches between, and you won't see anything if it's dark!
Well this is quite handy
http://www.isstracker.com/
but I don't know if you'll see it again later as it could be completely in the Earth's shadow.
http://www.isstracker.com/
but I don't know if you'll see it again later as it could be completely in the Earth's shadow.
When I was about 18, I very nearly crashed my Mum's Vauxhall Astra 1.7D because of the ISS.
I was driving along a dark, quiet country lane and saw an unusual object moving across the sky directly in front of me. It was too slow to be a shooting star but too fast to be a plane. Being young and impressionable, I concluded it was an alien craft.
Thankfully I then realised that while I had been staring in awe at the sky, I had drifted across the road and was about to crash into a hedge. I just managed to stop in time, then got out to watch the UFO disappear into the night sky.
The belief that I had seen a UFO remained with me until about five years ago - when I realised it was the ISS.
I was driving along a dark, quiet country lane and saw an unusual object moving across the sky directly in front of me. It was too slow to be a shooting star but too fast to be a plane. Being young and impressionable, I concluded it was an alien craft.
Thankfully I then realised that while I had been staring in awe at the sky, I had drifted across the road and was about to crash into a hedge. I just managed to stop in time, then got out to watch the UFO disappear into the night sky.
The belief that I had seen a UFO remained with me until about five years ago - when I realised it was the ISS.
Mir would have followed a very similar track to the one the ISS does. I wasn't really watching out for Mir during the time it was up there even though I could have seen it if I had looked. Indeed, all the previous Soviet era space stations i.e the Salyuts, would have all followed similar orbital tracks.
Skylab didn't come as far north as far as I know.
Skylab didn't come as far north as far as I know.
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