Space Station

Aerohead · 14-04-2014 9:36pm #1

Space Station will pass over Galway tonight at 9-49pm it will approach from the West travelling South East and will be visible for 5 minutes

Buddy74 · 14-04-2014 9:40pm

so if using the moon as a point of refrence it would be where?Thanks

Buddy74 · 14-04-2014 9:55pm

Spotted! Thanks

buzz11 · 14-04-2014 10:34pm

That was class to see, quite slow moving and really bright.

Thank you !

Aerohead · 14-04-2014 11:18pm

Best I could do with hand held camera

billie1b · 14-04-2014 11:19pm

It will be back again at 23:23 for 2 minutes

Storm 10 · 14-04-2014 11:58pm

Wont be worth it as it will be to far Souh and too low on the horizon

billie1b · 15-04-2014 12:00am

Went out again to have a look at the 11:23 pass (Dublin/Meath border), bleeding thing is so fast, its deadly

Aerohead · 15-04-2014 9:15am

The link below is for the NASA sighting page for the Space Station for Galway
during April, the bigger the max height number the closer it is to the City. You can register your email with NASA and they will tell you when the best times are for Galway, its free to register and get the alerts.

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=Ireland&region=None&city=Galway

confuseddotcom · 16-04-2014 11:42pm

Where the heck is one supposed to be looking before it flys by?!?

Don't even know where in the heck am supposed to be feicin lookin for the damn thing!

billie1b · 16-04-2014 11:46pm

confuseddotcom wrote: »

Where the heck is one supposed to be looking before it flys by?!? Don't even know where in the heck am supposed to be feicin lookin for the damn thing!

Up!

billie1b · 16-04-2014 11:47pm

All joking aside, just look to the west, you'll notice it, its extremely bright and moving quite fast.

confuseddotcom · 17-04-2014 10:07pm

Okay so there's supposed to be something passing at 10.37pm so will have a gawk.

And summat else at 11.04pm.

Well that was a load of sh1te anyway. Shure there's no sun out. West is different directions depending on where you stand?!? Not bein' funny but it is!

Nope didn't see a thing and was definitely out a few minutes beforehand. Was trying to work it out by the moon, but typically enough, there's no effing moon out tonight. But shure, if something was going through the sky from one side to the other anyway, shure, ya would have to see it wouldn't ya?!?

Stoopid arse-ho1e space crap.

Storm 10 · 18-04-2014 12:15am

Tonights pass would have been very low in the South,would have been hard to spot you need to look at the chart the bigger the above number is means it will be above you and its visible for longer, also it was pretty cloudy tonight

confuseddotcom · 18-04-2014 12:29am

Yeah it is damn cloudy out tonight alright. Shure might get to see one of them over the next few nights maybe.

18-04-2014 12:44am

I was outside maybe Monday at 10 or 11 when I saw something in the sky.

It made me remember back to the time the ISS passed over a few months back, which I'd missed.

Shame I only saw this thread now. I'll bookmark that NASA site though for a look again.

Would something like this ever look like a quick moving star?.
The night I mention above, the object seemed as distant as a star. It didn't seem low enough to be a plane and I couldnt see a flashing light.
It was obviously dark hence the problem gauging the distance.

Shame I didn't note the time and try for sites like the one linked above. It had me puzzled for a few minutes but quickly forgot about it again until I saw this thread.

aido76 · 18-04-2014 8:08pm

ISS is passing tonight at 9.49 to 9.54. Should be visible with the clear sky.

Gremlinertia · 18-04-2014 8:44pm

aido76 wrote: »

ISS is passing tonight at 9.49 to 9.54. Should be visible with the clear sky.

Where in the sky will it be passing through?

Citizenpain · 18-04-2014 9:00pm

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=Ireland&region=None&city=Galway#.U1GD8PldX2Q

will appear very low in west

aido76 · 18-04-2014 9:19pm

It will start low in the west but as it crosses the sky it will get higher. Stand with your right shoulder facing towards sunset (west) and your left sholder facing towards sunrise (east). You will be facing south. Tilt your head up half way and start scanning the sky from shoulder to shoulder, more to your right at 9.50.

Citizenpain · 18-04-2014 9:53pm

it aint slow!

Bob_the_dog · 18-04-2014 9:54pm

Better viewing than the Late Late

aido76 · 18-04-2014 9:56pm

It was too cloudy here:(

obezyana · 18-04-2014 9:56pm

I just seen it..... All the way from Kilkenny

Aerohead · 18-04-2014 10:07pm

Have a look up around 10-10 to 10-15 for the Dragon spacecraft which is on its way to the space station with supplies travelling in the same direction but wont be as bright,it launched from Florida a while ago

Iwannahurl · 04-06-2014 3:27pm

At least two opportunities tonight:

Thu Jun 05 00:39 AM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 61 degrees, Appears: WSW, Disappears: E

Thu Jun 05 2:16 AM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 56 degrees, Appears: W, Disappears: ESE

http://www.met.ie/forecasts/regional.asp?Prov=Connacht

Thargor · 04-06-2014 8:37pm

One of the most well designed apps on the Appstore:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.runar.issdetector

Iwannahurl · 05-06-2014 12:28am

NASA launched a new experiment on 18th April 2014: the High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) cameras.

This webpage provides the live feed from HDEV as well as a map showing the real-time location of the ISS: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/

If the HDEV image is black it could be because the ISS is on the night side of Earth.

GekkePrutser · 05-06-2014 10:26am

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I was outside maybe Monday at 10 or 11 when I saw something in the sky.

It made me remember back to the time the ISS passed over a few months back, which I'd missed.

It passes over several times a day, every day

The problem is that it's only well visible in the twilight hours, when the sky is dark but the ISS is still lit by the sun. But if you have a portable scanner you can hear the signal from it at any time. It's at 145.800Mhz (voice). Sometimes around lunch time you can hear the astronauts if they have time for a chat. And if you have a HAM radio license you can even talk back to them

I always use heavens-above.com to track it. And a satellite tracker app for my phone to figure out where exactly it is in the sky. The better ones use the built-in compass and gyroscope to show an overlay on the camera image (Augmented Reality).

Iwannahurl · 05-06-2014 11:41am

In fact the ISS is extremely visible in the wee small hours, as my experience last night showed.

NASA's Spot the Station service gave two times for last night, 00:39 and 02:16. That confused me at first (because I was expecting only one notification) but when I looked up the stats I found that the ISS takes only 90 minutes or so to orbit the Earth, travelling at an average speed of 27,600 km/h, and completes 15 orbits every 24 hours.

It's therefore possible to see it more than once per night, depending on weather, light and other factors.

Last night I saw it twice, because I was up very late. A few minutes after the 00:39 pass I had another look at its position on the tracker, and it was already over Ukraine!

EDIT- actually it turns out that the ISS can be seen during daylight hours too: http://www.zmescience.com/space/video-the-iss-and-atlantis-shuttle-as-seen-in-broad-daylight/#!USNMV

Storm 10 · 05-06-2014 12:33pm

Tonight will be very good time to see it weather permitting as it will be overhead

Time: Thu Jun 05 11:50 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 53 degrees, Appears: WSW, Disappears: E

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