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| Quote Tony Catsmith="Tony Catsmith"so my south is different south to vernon wire's south?'" no my point is some people cannot tell their left from their right if you look due south east is on your left this was meant to be a thread on the spacestation not an arguement on left and right east or west |
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| Quote the original stevo="the original stevo"if you live in different parts of the world the viewing angle will be different there are users on here from different parts of the globe'"
Totally agree, but said users from different parts of the globe would'nt see the space station when we did. ie) location of the observer is implied by the sighting parameters. Clearly someone in China could not have seen the ISS when we did. The observations were based on NASA's data for its appearance over the NW of England (or Manchester to be precise). Latitudes are always parallel, longitudes converge at the poles. Left and right has little to do with either. I'd give in  |
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| Quote Wires71="Wires71"Totally agree, but said users from different parts of the globe would'nt see the space station when we did. ie) location of the observer is implied by the sighting parameters. Clearly someone in China could not have seen the ISS when we did. The observations were based on NASA's data for its appearance over the NW of England (or Manchester to be precise). Latitudes are always parallel, longitudes converge at the poles. Left and right has little to do with either. I'd give in
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| Quote Tony Catsmith="Tony Catsmith"so my south is different south to vernon wire's south?'"
Technically yes, fractionally, assuming both yourself and Vernon Wire have differing meridians which is exacerbated with proximity to the magnetic poles.
Consider the instance where you are stood at the Magnetic North pole, you can walk south 1 mile, east 1 mile, north 1 mile and arrive at the same point as you started. |
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Anybody get a photo of it?
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Quote the tache is back="the tache is back"that was it then it dimmed when it lost the suns reflection,also saw 2 sattelites tonight,patrick moore as a replacement for doug hoyle anyone?'"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8249357.stm
Not sure what night you were viewing (I saw a couple of ISS passes in Cornwall last week), but it is worth considering that this is also up there and pretty close to ISS.
In total, during one observation last week, I saw the Shuttle, the ISS and I guess this (plus another unidentified object in a similar orbit)
The ISS is actually very easy to see, provided you know which direction and where to look. It is the brightest object in the Sky (save the Sun & Moon of course) and on a good night with a long observation time, you can easily see it moving from one side of the sky to the other. |
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Quote the tache is back="the tache is back"that was it then it dimmed when it lost the suns reflection,also saw 2 sattelites tonight,patrick moore as a replacement for doug hoyle anyone?'"
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8249357.stm
Not sure what night you were viewing (I saw a couple of ISS passes in Cornwall last week), but it is worth considering that this is also up there and pretty close to ISS.
In total, during one observation last week, I saw the Shuttle, the ISS and I guess this (plus another unidentified object in a similar orbit)
The ISS is actually very easy to see, provided you know which direction and where to look. It is the brightest object in the Sky (save the Sun & Moon of course) and on a good night with a long observation time, you can easily see it moving from one side of the sky to the other. | |
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| Quote MikePB="MikePB"You can tell its the off-season for us already
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Saw this for the first time tonight, its been cloudy round my way the past week. Came up exactly at the time expected and was clearly visible for about 2 minutes then it went faint very quickly.
The other bright "star" in the sky around the place where the space station crossed over is the planet Jupiter, thats quite clearly visible at the moment.
The HTV refuelling satelitte is docked onto the ISS at the moment.
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