Thursday night sightings time for Shuttle and ISS

Daytime ISS pass in 5 min. I don't think it'll be visible, though.

Hadouken!!

Stargate wrote: »

Ricky91t

send that weather up here to me in Cork Please !!

nice foto by the way !

Stargate

Send it to Dublin too please!!

Ricky make sure you post the photo up if you get lucky, that test photo is a cracking shot man. What gear you using?

PS: Thanks for the weather link Stargate!!

Stargate

-JammyDodger-

I was saying last night you would be busy lol

Your doing a great job with all the info !!
Well Done !!

Stargate

Ricky91t

Hadouken!! wrote: »

Send it to Dublin too please!!

Ricky make sure you post the photo up if you get lucky, that test photo is a cracking shot man. What gear you using?

PS: Thanks for the weather link Stargate!!

A canon eos 1D MKII and sigma 20-40 at 20mm

And wait for it,It's all balancing on an old beer barrel from the local pub :pac:

Will post shots if i see

Ricky91t

Anyone see the ISS there?I couldn't see it,Too far south maybe?

TomCo

Poland's getting a good look at it at this stage.

Stargate

Ricky91t

Not here in Cork , too cloudy :mad:

Stargate

Ricky91t

Clouds moving in now,Looks like my photo opportunity has just blown out the door

Alot of cloud above me but clear patches on the way,I don't hold much hope though..

Hadouken!!

Ricky91t wrote: »

A canon eos 1D MKII and sigma 20-40 at 20mm

And wait for it,It's all balancing on an old beer barrel from the local pub :pac:

Will post shots if i see

Nice kit!!

But please... get yourself a tripod dude, much easier!!! lol

Ricky91t

Hadouken!! wrote: »

Nice kit!!

But please... get yourself a tripod dude, much easier!!! lol

It's on the list,But it's a very long list :pac:

How's everywhere looking now?I've got a clear sky again and the sun just hurt my eyes when i went out to check,t- 75 minutes

Stargate

Ricky91t

Raining here in cork , misty , 360 cloud cover ,
got out and looked to the west , a little brighter but still very cloudy :mad:

Rain and cloud really kills it dead dont it !!

real real shame

We need a parting of the clouds in a big way to save this night of " the chase "

Ricky send that clear sky this way .cmon

Stargate

fryup

so what time are we saying people??

ISS....22.30*ish

shuttle.....22.55*ish

*ish is irish time

jumpguy

All clear for cloud here. Have me ole humble 10x50 bino's out. Shuttle is still very low at peak altitude (265km). Hopefully I'll get some detail, last night was great with the engines.

Heaven-Above is updated now, so you can get shuttle times seperately there.

fryup

fryup wrote: »

so what time are we saying people??

ISS....22.30*ish

shuttle.....22.55*ish

*ish is irish time

That's it. If you see my post near the beginning it'll give you all the details that you'll need.

Ricky91t

What are the chances of seeing the shuttle in the next few mins?

Couldn't see it

jumpguy

Ricky91t wrote: »

What are the chances of seeing the shuttle in the next few mins?

Couldn't see it

EDIT: Nevermind, looked at the wrong pass! Still not possible in daylight though.

It was actually nearly directly overhead, believe it or not. It's not of a low enough magnitude to see during daylight, though.

jumpguy

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

It was actually nearly directly overhead, believe it or not. It's not of a low enough magnitude to see during daylight, though.

Opps, I was looking at the wrong time. Must edit my post...but you've already quoted me. :pac:

Quote gone!

Ricky91t

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

It was actually nearly directly overhead, believe it or not. It's not of a low enough magnitude to see during daylight, though.

Can you tell me roughly where the iss is going to go?

I was hoping it would be how i saw it last night,it kind of went SW to NE ish...If you get me,Sorry about all the posting just i don't wanna mess up my shot

jumpguy

Haha it was grand but thanks.

ISS is heading West to East tonight!

Ricky91t

jumpguy wrote: »

Haha it was grand but thanks.

ISS is heading West to East tonight!

Thanks,Would it "look" over head in Kerry?If you know :pac:

Stargate

Hi All

Was wondering what software , if any , people are using for tracking ?

I use a few sites on the net

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

http://www.heavens-above.com/

I use 2 programmes for tracking , 2 great progs >>>>>


1 ......Nova For Windows
http://www.nlsa.com/rectangular.html
2.......Wxtrack
http://www.satsignal.eu/software/wxtrack_at_work.htm

Love to know what everybody else is using

TNX

Stargate

Ricky91t

Ricky91t wrote: »

Can you tell me roughly where the iss is going to go?

I was hoping it would be how i saw it last night,it kind of went SW to NE ish...If you get me,Sorry about all the posting just i don't wanna mess up my shot

Do you use Heavens Above? If you do, that'll tell you everything you need to know. Otherwise, if you see my post from earlier today on the first page of this thread, it'll tell you the direction from which it'll rise and in which it'll set (same for the Shuttle).

Here's a good website for tracking both the ISS and the Shuttle. The red circle surrounding both represents it's visibility horizon (you've to click on the icon of either the ISS or the Shuttle for the red circle
to come up).


Edit: Ricky: it'll rise to a max. altitude of 65 degrees, that's the same as 6/7 stacked fists held at arms length.

jumpguy

Ricky91t wrote: »

Thanks,Would it "look" over head in Kerry?If you know :pac:

Yeah it's making a very high pass tonight, nearly over your head. Just try to catch it heading over the horizon west as soon as possible. The shuttle will then be passing in nearly the same direction (West to ESE) at 10:59PM.

EDIT: As Jammydodger says, put in your co-ordinates to heavens-above and it has everything you need (including sky charts). I'm just reading the information off it.

leelee_m

Hey Guys been keeping an eye on this thread today, thanks for all the great info! Was hoping to see the iss and shuttle tonight but the clouds are thick here tonight in meath, not a break in them at all Doubtful that they'll clear in time.

fryup

can we concentrate on one thread......people are still using last nights thread

(bit confusing) merge or lock one....mods

dceire

Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is happening tonight?

I saw the shuttle launch last night and it was pretty sweet.

Is it re-entering our atmosphere tonight? Whats the story with the ISS, can we see that tonight too?

Ricky91t

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

Do you use Heavens Above? If you do, that'll tell you everything you need to know. Otherwise, if you see my post from earlier today on the first page of this thread, it'll tell you the direction from which it'll rise and in which it'll set (same for the Shuttle).

Here's a good website for tracking both the ISS and the Shuttle. The red circle surrounding both represents it's visibility horizon (you've to click on the icon of either the ISS or the Shuttle for the red circle
to come up).


Edit: Ricky: it'll rise to a max. altitude of 65 degrees, that's the same as 6/7 stacked fists held at arms length.

Thanks for that,found this : http://www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.asp?date=40010.897064213&lat=52.42964&lng=-9.37374&alt=0&loc=Kilmorna&TZ=CET&satid=25544

Looks good

jumpguy

dceire wrote: »

Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is happening tonight?

I saw the shuttle launch last night and it was pretty sweet.

Is it re-entering our atmosphere tonight? Whats the story with the ISS, can we see that tonight too?

The shuttle will be in space for another 2 weeks! Tonight, it is passing over Ireland again before it connects with the ISS. The ISS is also passing before it. If you're not sure what the ISS is, look it up on wikipedia.