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  • 05-10-2017 07:10PM
    #1
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭


    Just saw another Bright light heading East.
    Verified by other witness.
    No formation lights and whilst watching it a proper plane flew under it.

    Anyone else see it?


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  • #2
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,097 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Just saw another Bright light heading East.
    Verified by other witness.
    No formation lights and whilst watching it a proper plane flew under it.

    Anyone else see it?

    Yes. I thought that it was the ISS


  • #3
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Discodog wrote: »
    Yes. I thought that it was the ISS

    The ISS doesn't travel in a West-East pattern.
    Always in a diagonal flight path.


  • #4
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


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


  • #5
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,097 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    I know that it wasn't the ISS as I have the app but it looked like it. I looked through binoculars & no sign of navigation lights.


  • #6
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Discodog wrote: »
    I know that it wasn't the ISS as I have the app but it looked like it. I looked through binoculars & no sign of navigation lights.

    Yeh,
    Same as I we saw.
    Have seen this a few times this year but no-one has a decent explanation.


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  • #7
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    iss was at 19.36


  • #8
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Yeh,
    Same as I we saw.
    Have seen this a few times this year but no-one has a decent explanation.
    No one you've asked has provided you with a decent explanation.


  • #9
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    The ISS doesn't travel in a West-East pattern.
    Always in a diagonal flight path.

    its always west to east ? i thought


  • #10
    spookwoman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭spookwoman


    fryup wrote: »
    its always west to east ? i thought
    It does this was tonight
    Date = Thu Oct 5, 7:38 PM Visible = 4 mins Max Height = 76° Appears = 35° above WSW Disappears = 11° above E


  • #11
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    so what the OP saw was the iss ?


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  • #12
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    fryup wrote: »
    ^^^^^^^^^^^

    so what the OP saw was the iss ?

    Yes it was the ISS. I was watching it myself. The ISS always travel from the West to the East. Not due west to East but from a westerly direction normally towards the east or southeast.


  • #13
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Hmmm,

    What we saw was perfectly West to East and was directly above us.


  • #14
    cfuserkildare
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,611 ✭✭✭cfuserkildare


    Hmmm,

    What we saw was perfectly West to East and was directly above us.


  • #15
    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    cfuserkildare wrote: »
    Hmmm,

    What we saw was perfectly West to East and was directly above us.

    Yes that was the ISS. It did pass almost straight overhead at about 19:38. Many times the direction appears almost directly west to east. There is a pass tonight that is almost on the same track. Overhead at 20:24. Take a look at this site http://www.heavens-above.com to see the tracks and times.
    PassSkyChart2.ashx?passID=14781&size=800&lat=52.1854&lng=-7.0874&loc=Waterford&alt=25&tz=GMT&showUnlit=false


  • #16
    Discodog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,097 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    The strange this is why my ISS app shows the next pass as 8 days time - time to uninstall :confused:

    Edit: Just discovered that it thinks I am in the middle of the Atlantic


  • #17
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    this is an easier website to use, just type in your location and it gives you the times for the next pass over


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