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Title: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: Wortho on July 25, 2015, 12:11:09 PM

Should be a good viewing of the ISS tonight around 6:36pm (Sydney) if the sky is clear.

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: achjimmy on July 25, 2015, 12:48:21 PM

Thanks wortho so how do we do it just look up at the sky for a light moving

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: jkwpajero on July 25, 2015, 01:05:00 PM

Not quite over Sydney tonight. http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php?lon=151.20699020000006&lat=-33.8674869&name=Sydney (http://iss.astroviewer.net/observation.php?lon=151.20699020000006&lat=-33.8674869&name=Sydney)

James

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: Wortho on July 25, 2015, 01:09:24 PM

Quote from: achjimmy on July 25, 2015, 12:48:21 PM

Thanks wortho so how do we do it just look up at the sky for a light moving

Last time i saw it it looked like a fairly bright star moving reasonable quickly and should be visible for around 4 minutes tonight. If you have an Ipad or smartphone you can use an App like Star walk or Google sky to locate it before it becomes visible so you know where it will pop up on the horizon.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2015/jul/09/iss-space-station-jupiter-venus-sydney-video (http://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2015/jul/09/iss-space-station-jupiter-venus-sydney-video)

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: grc on July 25, 2015, 02:27:40 PM

Thanks for the info Wortho will have a look tonight


 CHEERS GRC   :cheers:

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: edz on July 25, 2015, 02:48:47 PM

Another good site is Heavens Above http://www.heavens-above.com/ (http://www.heavens-above.com/)   gives a ground track over veiw from your logged locations to help track targets and lists other satellites with dates / times location etc  ..

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: Gazza00 on July 25, 2015, 03:18:31 PM

Why not go directly to the mob that's running the show???

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm#.VbMbePkvz78 (http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm#.VbMbePkvz78)

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: woolgoolgaoffroad on July 25, 2015, 06:43:34 PM

just saw it shooting above crowd head

Title: Re: International Space station viewing tonight
Post by: rotor138 on July 25, 2015, 07:37:37 PM

Download Satellite AR app to your phone will show you exactly where it is as with any other visible satellites. Combine with google sky and you've got a big night looking at the sky ;D.