Anyone else just seen the ISS?

Wiggins · 1 Oct 2008 at 19:49

I was outside having a cigarette with the missus and she pointed it out.

It was very high, very bright and was travelling pretty damn fast.

GhostlyPea · 1 Oct 2008 at 19:53

Nope, not from here. Didn't know it was visible tonight

- Pea0n

Finglonga · 1 Oct 2008 at 20:55

THIS will tell you where it is.

*edit*Just popped outside as it was passing over when I posted the above link, can't miss it.

peterattheboro · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:17

Did it look like this?

AtreuS · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:18

That wasnt the ISS you saw... it was superman in his new "day-glo" suit he got from china.

Delvis · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:19

hm...be nice to see something like that

What would it look like actually...Just a fast moving light pretty much, and damn small.

peterattheboro · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:19

Finglonga said:
THIS will tell you where it is.

*edit*Just popped outside as it was passing over when I posted the above link, can't miss it.

And that is mint

Greenlizard0 · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:20

Not a chance up here ('Pool) the weather is terrible!!

rscosworth · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:20

raining here

Delvis · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:33

Finglonga said:
THIS will tell you where it is.

*edit*Just popped outside as it was passing over when I posted the above link, can't miss it.

Passing over where?...

acevuk · 1 Oct 2008 at 21:47

According to the link, it should be passing near UK at 10.35 (BST) so not quite sure how you lot have seen it...

yermum · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:10

Missed it tonight, but we all get together at the top of our road to watch it most clear nights.

On another (really envious) note, friends of ours have gone to the US this week and will be watching the Shuttle take-off from the official viewing area.

2 passes tonight according to Heavens Above web site which may explain the earlier views

Finglonga · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:16

acevuk said:
According to the link, it should be passing near UK at 10.35 (BST) so not quite sure how you lot have seen it...

It's dropping further north on every pass tonight, I am in the Midlands and it was lowish in the north sky at 9.00ish so won't see it again here tonight. Looks same size and brightness as Jupiter on a slow constant speed. You can see a few other satellites every evening if its clear but they all move much faster than the ISS. They look like stars streaming across the sky.

Johnnytoxic · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:20

peterattheboro said:
Did it look like this?

Thats one of my soldiers.

Slinwagh · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:24

It could have been an Iriduim flare.

Hen_Dawg · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:30

Finglonga said:
THIS will tell you where it is.

*edit*Just popped outside as it was passing over when I posted the above link, can't miss it.

I can't make sense of it? :confused:

Conscript · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:43

I must have missed it, which is a shame as its a really clear night down here, not a cloud in the sky. I don't spose it will make a second pass?

Finglonga · 1 Oct 2008 at 22:47

Hen_Dawg said:
I can't make sense of it?

Ignore the "Stargate" thingy and look at the lower map of the continents with the track of the ISS overlaid. If you look along the track you will see brighter circle with a small circle inside it. that's where the ISS is at that time.

Hen_Dawg · 1 Oct 2008 at 23:14

Finglonga said:
Ignore the "Stargate" thingy and look at the lower map of the continents with the track of the ISS overlaid. If you look along the track you will see brighter circle with a small circle inside it. that's where the ISS is at that time.

Ah, thanks

Finglonga · 5 Oct 2008 at 18:58

Should be round again over the next couple of nights.