Space Station fly by....

Anybody else go out to check it out....i was out at 5:10 n watched it overhead...pretty neat

 

I've seen it many times. It is very neat.

Download the "ISS DETECTOR" app. It sends you an alert when visible in your skies.

 

Thanks

 

NO WAY! I've been waiting on a clear night and location for months! How exciting! Does it take 25 seconds to pass?? It's traveling at 17000 mph I think....6 people up there!

 

We saw it 7-8 years ago. After dark.
Pretty neat to watch.
25 seconds sounds about right.

 

Seen it several times. They do clip right along.

 

I downloaded that app, sent me an alert about 4:30am flyover. I'm at work, so was able to get to the top of the silos and got a good view of it. Probably bring my binoculars tonight. That was cool seeing that.

 

Nice!

That app has a compass pointer to show you right where to look. Glad it worked for you.

 

Yes sir. That's how I found it. Also helped me identify a couple planets.

 

Remember to give em wave as they go by. I tried a telescope but they are just going too fast to track. Binocs worked good.

 

never seen it.must try harder.

 

I use an app "Heavens Above" to track the ISS and other objects. You'd be amazed at the number of rocket boosters, satellites, and other things floating around up there.
Another app I found predicted when you could see the sun reflecting off of one of the Iridium (cell phone) satellites. I happens only briefly and is called an "Iridium Flare".

 

As usual, the clouds rolled in about 8 pm so couldn't see any of the celestial happenings (Saturn, the comet or the space station).

 

I've seen the ISS a couple of times, just by chance.

I've recently gotten into amateur radio, so I'm a bit more interested in the ISS flyover schedule

One day I want to do this..

Any Ham Radio Operators on FHC?

Edit.. If you wish to skip the ham radio stuff, go to the 6 minute mark

 

I had my binoculars with me tonight. I did get a couple pictures with phone and binoculars as it went by about 5:30 am. Blurry but still fun to watch. Took one of the moon and Venus

 

I caught it overhead last night about 9:15. The sky wasn't totally dark, but the ISS is so bright, it didn't matter.

 

I got that alert, but we were having a rain shower about that time.

 

I've missed it a bunch of times, even knowing just where to look, but I've caught it a few times too. Twice was sunlight reflecting off of it and once was at high noon straight overhead. Once could make out the solar panels and weird configure of it quite distinctly. Impressive for with the naked eye. It does move right along. Anything to help look right where you need to look and when helps a lot.

Gave up on trying to see planet events that are supposed to be visible to the naked eye. When I was a kid I could go out in the back yard at night and see the milky way quite clearly. Now there's so much light pollution from rapidly increasing infrastructure you can't see much of anything at all any more.

 

The ISS is due to fly over our place about 10:00 tonight.

 

This is almost as much fun as cutting wood...got a couple pictures of the 4:30AM flyover.