ISS Back Tonight

EoghanIRL

http://spacefellowship.com/news/art40362/atv-5-approaching-station-while-crew-preps-for-spacewalk.html

MiskyBoyy

My first time ever seeing the ISS. I'm in awe. That was so cool! :eek:

Thanks for answering my question without me needing to ask it, was just about to come inside when I seen the second object (ATV5) trailing behind the ISS, was googling to try find out but to no avail!

yellowlabrador

I thought I was going to miss it due to the clouds and rain, but I was lucky. I remeber the days when the space shuttle used to fly past. I always made a point of watching it fly over.

Ice Storm

yellowlabrador wrote: »

I thought I was going to miss it due to the clouds and rain, but I was lucky. I remeber the days when the space shuttle used to fly past. I always made a point of watching it fly over.

Reminded me of Hale-Bopp the comet. Just looked it up and it was back in 1997. It was visible for so long that the novelty nearly wore off!

ankaragucu

Might get a little window of darkness tomorrow night for meteor viewing before the moon comes into play with its glare.
Think the weather forecast is similar to tonight??Just come back inside, bits of cloud crossing the sky over Dublin now.Lovely viewing of everything earlier.

Bongalongherb

It's a bit windy out tonight. Here's a long video shot of the big moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXBJtp5jyCY

EoghanIRL

Cork

Tue Aug 12, 00:45 AM < 1 min max height - 13° appears - 11 above W disappears - 13 above W

Tue Aug 12, 10:19 PM 6 min max height- 85° appears - 12 above W disappears- 14 above E

Tue Aug 12, 11:55 PM 2 min max height - 34° appears - 10 above W disappears - 34 above WSW

fryup

so will the atv rendezvous with the iss tonight??

yellowlabrador

It's already happened, this morning over Khazakstan.
If you sub to the ESA channel on youtube, you get all the updates and the story on Rosetta

EoghanIRL

fryup wrote: »

so will the atv rendezvous with the iss tonight??

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2014/08/europes-atv-5-final-iss-arrival/

fryup

so..will the iss be bigger/brighter tonight?

EoghanIRL

fryup wrote: »

so..will the iss be bigger/brighter tonight?

I'm not 100 percent sure.
Found this : Being much larger with lots of highly reflective solar panels, the ISS is naturally much brighter than ATV-5. Their brightnesses vary depending on the pass, but if the ISS resembles Jupiter or Venus, the cargo ship is more like an average bright star.

MiskyBoyy

We won't see it in the South of the country or anywhere in Ireland tonight will we?

EoghanIRL

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

We won't see it in the South of the country or anywhere in Ireland tonight will we?

August 12th: See ISS at 10:23pm high in South and at 11:58pm low in West.

See my previous post for more details .

Meteors peak tonight too.

EoghanIRL

Best pass yet . Visible for 4 mins . Could see atv partially too .

Simply Red

Great view over dublin 15, just as the iss was overhead, i saw 2 maybe 3 fainter objects travelling perpendicular to the iss, what were they?

MiskyBoyy

EoghanIRL wrote: »

Best pass yet . Visible for 4 mins . Could see atv partially too .

Too damn Cloudy in Wexford

NomadicGray

Simply Red wrote: »

Great view over dublin 15, just as the iss was overhead, i saw 2 maybe 3 fainter objects travelling perpendicular to the iss, what were they?

More satellites I'd say, saw a few too

fryup

too damn cloudy in east clare

Ice Storm

Cloudy in Louth too but I did see it briefly before it was obscured.

Bongalongherb

EoghanIRL wrote: »

August 12th: See ISS at 10:23pm high in South and at 11:58pm low in West.

See my previous post for more details .

Meteors peak tonight too.

Which part of the sky will be better to see these meteors ? Is it east ?.

Thor

Was clear enough in Dublin, with some clouds arriving here and there.

Caught a meter in the shot as well.

leck

I'm new at this ISS sighting. I think I saw it last night. Saw something very bright move across the sky from West to South.

Went out too late tonight and missed the opportunity to see it at 10:19PM. It was quite cloudy anyway. I'm trying to make sense of the Tracker site. I'm in Mayo so set Westport as my location on http://spotthestation.nasa.gov. For tonight this shows:

Date ............................. Visible ... Max Height......Appears.........Disappears
Tue Aug 12, 10:19 PM ....... 6 min ........ 59°........10 above W......11 above ESE
Tue Aug 12, 11:56 PM ....... 2 min ........ 31°........11 above W.......1 above SW

But if I put the 10:19PM time into the ISS Tracker at http://www.isstracker.com/historical, entering the time as "2014-08-12 22:19:00" then the tracker shows the ISS over eastern part of Africa. And six minutes later at "2014-08-12 22:25:00" it's closer to Nigeria. Is the tracker not accurate or am I using it incorrectly?

EoghanIRL

leck wrote: »

I'm new at this ISS sighting. I think I saw it last night. Saw something very bright move across the sky from West to South.

Went out too late tonight and missed the opportunity to see it at 10:19PM. It was quite cloudy anyway. I'm trying to make sense of the Tracker site. I'm in Mayo so set Westport as my location on http://spotthestation.nasa.gov. For tonight this shows:



But if I put the 10:19PM time into the ISS Tracker at http://www.isstracker.com/historical, entering the time as "2014-08-12 22:19:00" then the tracker shows the ISS over eastern part of Africa. And six minutes later at "2014-08-12 22:25:00" it's closer to Nigeria. Is the tracker not accurate or am I using it incorrectly?

It wasn't 10:19 for me . It only came observable from 10.23/24.

Tonight it moved east to west .
Lastnight it was west to south east . So Id say it was more than likely the iss you saw .

I'm not sure about the tracker . This site is usually spot on too.
http://www.astronomy.ie/iss.php

yellowlabrador

it was 10'19 0n the dot here in West Cork. And as a bonus there was a meteor moments before. I filmed it with my phone but the quality is poor. I was a little worried as it was still quite light but it was great. I felt like waving.....:D

leck

EoghanIRL wrote: »

It wasn't 10:19 for me . It only came observable from 10.23/24.

Tonight it moved east to west .
Lastnight it was west to south east . So Id say it was more than likely the iss you saw .

I'm not sure about the tracker . This site is usually spot on too.
http://www.astronomy.ie/iss.php

I saw it a few minutes ago, just before midnight. It was high in the sky and was able to follow it for about a minute before it disappeared into the clouds again.

delly

Nice and clear in Drogheda for the 23:55 pass. I only grabbed the camera as an afterthought, so didn't have time to get the focus spot on.

Bongalongherb

Looks like a satellite but was moving very fast @ 23:12 last night. Moving from south to north north west. Anyone know what it was at this time ?. Maybe it was just a satellite, but it was moving much faster than normal with this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ0h_6tovg4

EoghanIRL

Wed Aug 13, 9:31 PM 5 min max height 86° appears 27 above W disappears 12 above E

Wed Aug 13, 11:06 PM 4 min max height 55° appears 10 above W disappears 43 above SSE

Hoof_Hearted

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Looks like a satellite but was moving very fast @ 23:12 last night. Moving from south to north north west. Anyone know what it was at this time ?. Maybe it was just a satellite, but it was moving much faster than normal with this one.

That's extraordinary, it's going like the clappers! They aren't usually that fast so I'm hoping someone will know the answer - I'm intrigued. Thanks for the vid.