International Space Station passing over SOON!

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:15

touch said:
Heads up guys (literally). Meteor shower tonight.
Expected to peak at 90 per hour in the early hours of tomorrow morning.

I'm confused:

"Up to two meteors will be visible every minute over the British countryside on Saturday night as the annual Perseid display reaches its peak."

Which contradicts you saying the early hours of Saturday Morning.

Spenty · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:16

What direction does it come from and head towards? SW to NE?

touch · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:18

Sorry, yes, the peak is Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Spenty · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:38

Well went out to see 1 satellite and ended up seeing 2! Was looking west and caught one flying over, then looked east and saw another a few minutes later. Guessing the 1 to the east was the ISS.

ScoTTyBEEE · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:39

Just saw it flying directly over London. That thing is bright!!

I've seen it before in the countryside and it's so bright you can't miss it.

dunker · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:40

came in pretty bang on west on the iow heading east just now.

krz1 · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:42

Yeah, just saw it fast and bright, shame it's so cloudy here (Ilford)

Pretty amazing, thanks for posting this op.

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:43

Really annoying... we went outside about 23:15 and it was really quite clear, could see quite a few stars, then about 2 minutes before it came near us cloud cover!

Bah!!

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:46

Spenty said:
Well went out to see 1 satellite and ended up seeing 2! Was looking west and caught one flying over, then looked east and saw another a few minutes later. Guessing the 1 to the east was the ISS.

The ISS would have been travelling very quickly and also coming from the West.

Spenty · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:47

smr said:
The ISS would have been travelling very quickly and also coming from the West.

Must have been the ISS I saw first then. I definitely seen another to the east a few minutes later.

Jotun · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:48

ScoTTyBEEE said:
I've seen it before in the countryside and it's so bright you can't miss it.

I managed

I must have been looking in the wrong direction, I was outside for about 10 minutes and saw nothing

There's always tomorrow if the sky is clear

smr · 10 Aug 2012 at 23:49

For how many more days will it be orbiting over or near the UK then?

Skillmister · 11 Aug 2012 at 00:33

Saw the ISS., a satellite and 11 shooting stars in about 30 minutes this evening. Wish I had a decent camera its so unbelievable how many stars you can see with clear skies here compared to in the ciyis in England

Spenty · 11 Aug 2012 at 01:07

but can you see the milky way?

dunker · 11 Aug 2012 at 03:44

smr said:
yes, granted, but then I still might not be able to see it from here...

i was thinking 100 miles maybe, turns out to be closer to 250 miles high woah!

Cyclone · 11 Aug 2012 at 07:44

I want to see it

Cyclone · 12 Aug 2012 at 12:02

Another viewing tonight (if ive read it right) around 21.49 and 23.26. Im going to be at work but should be able to skive for a few minutes

Fire_fly · 12 Aug 2012 at 12:20

I Managed to see both last night and Friday night. Although when I took out an reasonable set of binoculars I was unable to get a better view of it which I though was a bit strange.

Jay · 14 Aug 2012 at 21:23

21.39 tonight for 6 minutes.

413x · 14 Aug 2012 at 21:30

Cloudy