ISS passing over limerick

Sticky_Fingers

Anyone catch sight of the International Space Station passing over Limerick just there, it looked like a very bright fast moving star. There is another pass over tonight at 20.36PM, look into the West and you may see it.

A much more impressive pass will happen tomorrow night at 19.27PM and the station will pass nearly directly overhead traveling West to East.

Check the link below for more details:
http://www.heavens-above.com/?Loc=Limerick&Lat=52.665&Lng=-8.623&Alt=24&TZ=GMT

zuroph

just missed it tonight, but one of the coolest things I've ever seen was the last launch last year when you could see the shuttle just after it had dropped the rocket and you could see both flying through the air just above ireland. very cool

RonMexico

It was pretty spectacular tonight, very clear. Keep an eye on the astronomy forum for the times.

BravoMike

If you have a scanner tune it into 145.800 fm and you could be lucky enough to hear the astronaut in the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73EYcyszf8

jonski

bump for timing ...run outside - look up !

phill106

too cloudy in shannon anyway

jonski

Unless it was planning on doing a low level fly by and buzzing the tower at Conagh then there was no chance of seeing it in Limerick due to cloud cover .

Dumdum McCarthy

Is it passing tonite?If so what time?

irishleedsfan

Dumdum McCarthy wrote: »

Is it passing tonite?If so what time?

Satellite Rise time Direction to look Transit time Max elevation Magnitude

CZ-4B R/B 06:57:49 am N 07:01:52 51° 1.6 (visible)

NanoSail-D 06:39:04 pm NNW 06:43:33 85° 3.0 (visible)

GOCE (flaring satellite) 07:01:20 pm S 07:03:25 34° 4.5 (dim)

XSS-11 07:10:39 pm NNE 07:14:00 66° 4.2 (dim)

ISS - Discovery 07:53:20 pm W 07:55:46 69° -3.8 (very bright)

Idefix and Ariane 42B 10:05:06 pm N 10:10:24 36° 3.3 (dim)


I think these are correct. The astronomy section has good guides for viewing

Dumdum McCarthy

I saw it clearly tonight for over a minute.

phog

Dumdum McCarthy wrote: »

I saw it clearly tonight for over a minute.

As did I, but it was gone as soon as I saw it.

lasno

Just saw the shuttle and space station pass over. Shuttle was ahead of the space station.

Sticky_Fingers

Bump to say that you can catch the ISS passing over Limerick in the coming days (and later tonight). I saw it earlier to night and it was dazzling bright and truly awe inspiring to think that there are people living on that brilliant point of light.

More info here:

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=52.733&lng=-6.293&loc=Limerick&alt=118&tz=GMT

Edit: Next pass (Fri/Sat morning) at 3.42 - 3.48am, azimuth in the South (look directly up while facing the South) at 3.45am. To see face South and scan west to east, it will be the brightest object in the sky and moving very fast