ISS Passover

smithysmith

Just to let you's know, those living in the North of Ireland that the ISS will be passing in front of the moon tonight!

Zubeneschamali

smithysmith wrote: »

Just to let you's know, those living in the North of Ireland that the ISS will be passing in front of the moon tonight!

at 21:04:10 or thereabouts. Armagh would be about perfect, I think.

lolie

Two good passes tonight at 9.48 - 9.54 and at 11.25 - 11.27.
Something else that might be worth looking out for is the Dragon capsule/rocket being launched tonight at 9.58pm(our time) in Florida to bring supplies to the ISS.
There's a chance it could be seen with the naked eye if it passes over us.
Launches at 9.58 so look out from about 10.00, it should go the same direction as the ISS but will be a lot dimmer so harder to spot.

Edit: changed time.

lolie

Bad news, launch scrubbed no chance to see the rocket tonight

.@SpaceX launch scrubbed today due to #Falcon 9 first stage helium leak

del88

Just seen the iss pass over...always amazed!!

fryup

Great to see iss, lovely full moon tonight...pity about rocket launch

Addle

Just happened to be looking up at the sky and noticed something going on up there. I hope this is it!

Ardent

Whereabouts can I expect to see the ISS in the sky tonight (in Dublin)?

tricky D

Plug your observing location into http://www.heavens-above.com and you'll get the required info from the ISS satellite link.

It'll be something like below, rising in the west at 9.00 and traversing W->E setting at 9.07.

Date Brightness Start Highest point End Pass type
(mag) Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az. Time Alt. Az.
15 Apr -3.2 21:00:52 10° W 21:04:13 66° S 21:07:34 10° E visible
15 Apr -2.7 22:37:34 10° W 22:40:46 40° SSW 22:40:52 40° SSW visible

zenno

Night-vision recorder set up so hoping to get a shot of the ISS with the star background. Can someone give me a closest time to be ready in my location... swords Co Dublin. From looking westerly.

Tracking it now, but is this site accurate enough ? http://iss.astroviewer.net/

tricky D

You'll be just a second or two earlier than the times I posted above.

zenno

I was caught out for a second looking too far south, but managed to capture it as it was going by above me. The light pollution from the airport made it harder to get more stars in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh64u9Vkh8U

beauf

Saw it, cool, disappeared behind a cloud after 3 or 4 mins.

TheVoodoo

*Disclaimer - I have no idea of the correct terminology *

Did anyone else who was out look up at about 21:20 see what appeared to be an asteroid 'burning up'. Long orange red streak lasting about 3-4 seconds then getting brighter then finally disappearing? Was definitely not just a normal 'shooting star'. I was looking North From Monkstown, Co. Dublin ( Toward Howth )

zenno

TheVoodoo wrote: »

*Disclaimer - I have no idea of the correct terminology *

Did anyone else who was out look up at about 21:20 see what appeared to be an asteroid 'burning up'. Long orange red streak lasting about 3-4 seconds then getting brighter then finally disappearing? Was definitely not just a normal 'shooting star'. I was looking North From Monkstown, Co. Dublin ( Toward Howth )

There was a red coloured light and a streak that broke up but I just assumed it to be a meteor, as this was the time I was recording the ISS. My sister actually pointed it out to me.

TheVoodoo

zenno wrote: »

There was a red coloured light and a streak that broke up but I just assumed it to be a meteor, as this was the time I was recording the ISS. My sister actually pointed it out to me.

Ah I see. Thanks, as someone who has no idea of anything like that it seemed very interesting (and very large)!

MeteoritesEire

TheVoodoo wrote: »

*Disclaimer - I have no idea of the correct terminology *

Did anyone else who was out look up at about 21:20 see what appeared to be an asteroid 'burning up'. Long orange red streak lasting about 3-4 seconds then getting brighter then finally disappearing? Was definitely not just a normal 'shooting star'. I was looking North From Monkstown, Co. Dublin ( Toward Howth )

yup, my bro said he saw it from Belfast--no sound though so probably quite a few miles away

tricky D

Anybody else notice the brief (2/3 seconds) faint light of a north to south satellite at about 9.02 crossing in front of the ISS path at about 20 degrees ahead?

zenno

The ISS will be over Ireland again very soon, I wonder if it will still be visible a bit as it's getting duller. http://iss.astroviewer.net/

zenno

I just got the little feller there again. Watch in half-screen mode on 720p, it gets a bit noisy on full-screen but it's reasonable enough to see.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A_7Scj11p0

lolie

Bright pass of the ISS tonight at 9.49 - 9.54.
Also look out for the Dragon spacecraft which launched to the ISS earlier this evening, should pass overhead about 10.10/10.15.
Going same direction as the ISS.

brevity

Just spotted it go over there. Great night for it.

ankaragucu

Yeah saw both of them clearly, used binoculars too.Beautiful clear skies tonight.

fryup

ankaragucu wrote: »

Yeah saw both of them clearly, used binoculars too.Beautiful clear skies tonight.

Will the rocket be visible tonight?

lolie

fryup wrote: »

Will the rocket be visible tonight?

Should be visible if the sky's are clear but very hazy out now.
Don't know the exact time yet but will post here if i find out.
The ISS should be visible tonight at 9.00 and again at 10.38, West to east.

ankaragucu

fryup wrote: »

Will the rocket be visible tonight?

I'm down in Limerick now for the night, getting a bit cloudy but it may clear after night fall.
Heading to Kerry tomorrow for a few days, hoping for clear skies in the newly famous Dark Sky Reserve!

lolie

The Dragon spacecraft is due to pass over about a minute or so ahead of the ISS.

Edit: Dragon is about 1 minute ahead of the ISS not behind.
The next pass at 10:38 is low down so may be difficult to spot.

Prenderb

I use heavens-above and ISS Detector (Android) for this but only heard about the 9pm pass on twitter. Where else can I get reliable pass info, because that was a spectacular pass and it was listed as invisible on heavens-above when I checked afterwards, and it wasn't showing up on the ISS Detector App either.

lolie

Prenderb wrote: »

I use heavens-above and ISS Detector (Android) for this but only heard about the 9pm pass on twitter. Where else can I get reliable pass info, because that was a spectacular pass and it was listed as invisible on heavens-above when I checked afterwards, and it wasn't showing up on the ISS Detector App either.

I normally just use Heavens Above to check for the ISS.
Even if a pass is invisible on it once it's a high up pass and it's dusk outside then there's a good chance it's visible.

Hoof_Hearted

I've signed up for alerts here, handy! http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

Prenderb

Prenderb wrote: »

I use heavens-above and ISS Detector (Android) for this but only heard about the 9pm pass on twitter. Where else can I get reliable pass info, because that was a spectacular pass and it was listed as invisible on heavens-above when I checked afterwards, and it wasn't showing up on the ISS Detector App either.

Looking into this again this morning, it seems that the app uses Heavens-Above information so once I've unchecked the invisible/visible toggle that should sort me out.

I've just got the NASA one also, thanks hoof-hearted!