ISS and space shuttle visible to naked eye...

[Duende]

Anyone else been scoping it out? Goes by fairly quick! Check out the times and other info at this site. Not sure if this was already posted, seems like there's alot of fellas on here into this stuff.

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

 

[divided]

Interesting....

 

[Silver2003Cobra]

awesome..

 

[SN95StangMan]

thanks

 

[03R3DF1R3]

thanks man

 

[SID297]

Anyone have a pic of them going overhead?

 

[thomas91169]

i cant see shit! all my passes are like 5-6pm, its still light out.

 

[04MystiCobra]

Cool! Thanks!

 

[03DOHC]

this site is good. check out the irridium flares. http://www.heavens-above.com/

 

[astrodudepsu]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080730.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap081016.html

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080604.html

 

[03DOHC]

I see satellites all the time when I go out with my telescope. You can easily see a lot of them with the naked eye. Sometimes they zip across the eyepiece too.

 

[Sapperstang]

I see satellites all the time when I go out with my telescope. You can easily see a lot of them with the naked eye. Sometimes they zip across the eyepiece too.

+1 That has happened to me several times.

 

[whiplash306]

All this stuff is fascinating, but I really need to educate myself on how to locate objects in parts of the sky using all those astronomical location measurements. For now, I understand almost NONE, thus making my backyard viewing relegated to chance sightings and obvious naked eye objects, such as planets, stars and of course, our meteorite showers! I have seen numerous satellites by chance as well. Amazing to see how fast those suckers zip through the night sky. Have to be honest though, since learning about the irridium flares about four years ago, I've yet to see one as I don't know how/where to look.....

Thanks for the links guys. Astrodudepsu, I rarely see eye to eye with you when concerning faith based matters, but your contributions by way of easily understood explanations to some of our site's astronomical threads is mind boggling....! Keep it up as I do appreciate them!!!

 

[cobra_4]

Kinda cool. It should be dark tonight when it comes over me im gonna try and check it out.

 

[Jefe]

Was out a couple weekends ago and saw 2 satellites go by within 20 mins of each other on the same path. Looks like theres 1 or 2 every night. Thanks!

 

[Duende]

I'll be looking tonight but we've been covered with clouds over here in Oregon. My father said he saw them last night where he was at, and they were very bright and across the sky quickly.

TGIF, talk to you all later! :beer:

 

[aaandht]

I literally just missed them.

 

[Jefe]

Yep gonna be too cloudy here. Plus its not dark for another 45 mins...