ISS Back Tonight

Koloman

wofias8 wrote: »

Just caught it there, waiting for the next pass now!

Just caught it myself. Luckily it's not too cloudy.

Rucking_Fetard

Yea, that was a good one, next ones to short.

5 min one tomorrow but may be a tad early/bright for it at 19.20 but one at 20.56 should be good, 2 and a half mins but fairly high at 40 degree.

Hotblack Desiato

****in' missed it after all that, got delayed making the dinner nice thai chicken curry though...

jprboy

Quick question:

What does "10 above SW" mean in relation to the position of the ISS?

Thanks

mickmackey1

Well it simply means 10° above the southwestern horizon. If you hold your fist out at arms length against the sky, that's about 5°, so twice that.

refusetolose

jprboy wrote: »

Quick question:

What does "10 above SW" mean in relation to the position of the ISS?

Thanks

90 is straight overhead (looking straight up)
0 is looking straight ahead

knarkypants

Great view of it there this evening.

Bongalongherb

The next one soon...

Sat Oct 11, 8:56 PM 2 min 37° 10 above WSW 37 above SW

Bongalongherb

I forgot to check whether the ISS would be lit by the sun on this pass. It might be visible in the far west of Ireland. Doh, I should have checked that first.

baldbear

Yeah jus saw it and got The family out too!

How do you find out the time its coming over again?

knarkypants

It was visible that time too but only for a couple of minutes.

dmc17

baldbear wrote: »

Yeah jus saw it and got The family out too!

How do you find out the time its coming over again?

This is what I used

Bongalongherb

Same here, it lasted for 1 minute and faded out at around 85°

Boxman

Why does it appear to fade out?

Rucking_Fetard

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

Put that on your phones, it'll tell ya everything. Angles, Direction, weather, what it is, the whole lot.

dmc17

Boxman wrote: »

Why does it appear to fade out?

My guess* is that the sun is reflecting off it and as it moves the sunlight hitting it gets less and less

*Complete guess. Open to correction

tricky D

You can see it because of the sun still reflecting on it even though it is dark down here. For an hour or two after our sunset or before our sunrise it is still being lit up as the Sun hasn't yet gone below the ISS's horizon. It does sometimes fade out when overhead when the sun disappears from its horizon during its pass. Put another way, it moves into the Earth's shadow from the Sun.

Rucking_Fetard

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I forgot to check whether the ISS would be lit by the sun on this pass.

What else lights it?

Bongalongherb

Rucking_Fetard wrote: »

What else lights it?

LOL.

Rucking_Fetard

Rucking_Fetard wrote: »

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

Put that on your phones, it'll tell ya everything. Angles, Direction, weather, what it is, the whole lot.

Here's another one.

Star Chart

Bongalongherb

I tried both google starmap and the one above on my samsung galaxy tab 7 inch but both of them don't work correctly. Could be the firmware I'm using or the app is not stable for my tab. it shows east no matter where i point it.

Snake Plisken

For anyone using iPhone or iPad download "ISS Spotter" it lets you know the time and date of all passes over a 10 day period and you can set a 5 minute reminder before it passes over your location!

Bongalongherb

I saw the ISS earlier past 8pm, but I caught these three long objects a while later.

Not sure what they are, but when you look at the video and frames, you can see one long object on the far left moving up fast, then at the exact same time you can see two others close together on the far right moving up the same way. They are moving too slow to be meteors though. The quality is not great with the light cloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ5qpmDuOv0

tricky D

Same speed, same trajectory, aligned: possibly debris from a launch, maybe recent.

Fluffy88

How visible is the ISS from earth?
Would you be able to see detail with a fairly basic telescope, a decent pair of binoculars or a DSLR with a long lens?

knarkypants

Fluffy88 wrote: »

How visible is the ISS from earth?
Would you be able to see detail with a fairly basic telescope, a decent pair of binoculars or a DSLR with a long lens?

It moves too fast to view it from a telescope. I'm not very knowledgeable on binoculars or cameras so I'll leave it to someone to advise you on those.

Fluffy88

knarkypants wrote: »

It moves too fast to view it from a telescope. I'm not very knowledgeable on binoculars or cameras so I'll leave it to someone to advise you on those.

I was thinking it would be. I've seen it race across the sky once or twice before, but I'd love to get a closer look at it if I could.
No idea if it's even possible

knarkypants

Fluffy88 wrote: »

I was thinking it would be. I've seen it race across the sky once or twice before, but I'd love to get a closer look at it if I could.
No idea if it's even possible

I would think you need a really good set of binoculars. I have a basic set here and it was useless....just make the bright light a little bit bigger!! :pac:

Oscar Bravo

2 passes this evening one bright pass at 1919 lasting nearly 6 minutes. starting in the SSW and ending in the East. second one is at 2055. same direction but not as high or bright.

Bongalongherb

Fluffy88 wrote: »

I was thinking it would be. I've seen it race across the sky once or twice before, but I'd love to get a closer look at it if I could.
No idea if it's even possible

The only way you could see the ISS structure would be from using a seriously expensive computer-controlled telescope and viewed on computer screen. There is one amateur astronomer guy that could do this but I can't remember his name.

The telescope can be hard enough to manually keep the moon and stars in view using a good zoom, never mind the ISS moving at the fast speed it moves. You would need specialised equipment to see the structure of the ISS. And that would be very expensive.