International Space Station

Droolinggimp · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:31

Tachyon said:
The version I'm using is Starry Night Enthusiast 4.5. It's a few years old now, I'm not sure what the latest versions have but when you start it up it updates any comet positions etc...

I've found it really useful if your anyway interested in the night sky as you can put in your location & then go outside & you've a good idea what your looking at.

During the Lunar eclispe thread some one said they can see a faint streak in the sky and said it was our milkyway. Is this true? Can we see our own Galaxy?

Droolinggimp · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:33

D.P. said:
The sun is quite bright and that is a fair bit further away than the ISS, as is the moon.

Venus it most probably is.

I see what your saying but there a lot bigger.. Maybe im getting all mixed up and too excited..

VaderDSL · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:34

droolinggimp said:
During the Lunar eclispe thread some one said they can see a faint sreak in the sky and said it was our milkyway. Is this true? Can we see our own Galaxy?

We can see the other arms in our Galaxy, we're in the Orion arm afaik, and we see other arms and the galactic centre i think.

SiriusB · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:36

droolinggimp said:
Whats the ISS called?

The International Space Station.

Tachyon · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:36

droolinggimp said:
During the Lunar eclispe thread some one said they can see a faint streak in the sky and said it was our milkyway. Is this true? Can we see our own Galaxy?

Absolutely. You need a good dark location though with no light pollution to see it however.

Droolinggimp · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:37

VaderDSL said:
We can see the other arms in our Galaxy, we're in the Orion arm afaik, and we see other arms and the galactic centre i think.

Amazing.

When ever I see pictures of other galaxys and the total massiveness of them its hard to comprehend just how small we are in all this. Its very strange being able to see our own galaxy from where we are on our planet.

I realise we are on the edge of our galaxy so to speak but to see it. wow..

Droolinggimp · 21 Mar 2007 at 20:38

SiriusB said:
The International Space Station.

I know that

it would have a more sceintific name for NASA thats what is was trying to find out. :rolleyes:

D.P. · 21 Mar 2007 at 21:05

droolinggimp said:
I see what your saying but there a lot bigger.. Maybe im getting all mixed up and too excited..

venus is bigger than the moon.
Anyway, did some checking, and it is definitely venus. Supposed to be exceptionally bright tonight.

D.P. · 21 Mar 2007 at 21:07

droolinggimp said:
Amazing. When ever I see pictures of other galaxys and the total massiveness of them its hard to comprehend just how small we are in all this. Its very strange being able to see our own galaxy from where we are on our planet.

I realise we are on the edge of our galaxy so to speak but to see it. wow..

with some fancy camera equipment on a good night you can get this
http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-09/milky-way-southern-germany.jpg

Irish_Tom · 21 Mar 2007 at 21:08

Yup tis very bright. I just tried getting a photo of it but next-doors house was in the way. I tried to raise my tripod on the garden furniture but it wasn't stable enough.

Panzer

ChrisJSY · 21 Mar 2007 at 21:16

I thought it was Mars

That must have been last year heh

Droolinggimp · 21 Mar 2007 at 21:19

D.P. said:
with some fancy camera equipment on a good night you can get this
http://www.neatorama.com/images/2006-09/milky-way-southern-germany.jpg

What hardware do you need to get photos like that? That pic is really good.

Irish_Tom · 21 Mar 2007 at 21:43

You don't need any really fancy kit to take photos like that. I thought it looked like a photoshop job and I was right: link

Just need a Ha Filter and 12 or so photos to put together.

Nice photo non the less, but it's not as simple as a fancy bit of technology-point and shoot.

Panzer

Mr Mag00 · 21 Mar 2007 at 23:06

I get great views of the Milky Way here in Dorset!

Stolly · 21 Mar 2007 at 23:16

I remember laying on a beach in Goa at the millenium looking at satellites whizz past over us.

Was pretty cool.

Amp34 · 21 Mar 2007 at 23:23

droolinggimp said:
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html

This a tracker of soome sort. Its trying to find where it is within my loctaion right now. That way I should know if it is the ISS.

EDIT: Actualy this is very complicated and I have no idea what im doing

The azimuth is how far off north it is (in degrees), from the chart it brought up on the ISS (for about south west area) the ISS will be visible tonight from between 3am and 3:07 am (7 minutes) very low in the sky in an almost due south direction heading east until disappearing at almost due east.

Combat squirrel · 21 Mar 2007 at 23:23

to the origonal poster its venus, as has been pointed out, you can see the ISS at certain times, but it takes about 50 seconds-->a minute or so to cross the sky so ya have to be quick looking at it, its just a very fast moving bright star to the naked eye

DAVEM · 21 Mar 2007 at 23:42

space is truely amazing IMO. it was only recently that actually saw the night sky similar too that picture that was posted. I was in Ross on Wye and I looked up and the longer i looked the more detail i could see I lay in the garden of my friends parents house for about an hour, i think the girl I'd gone to see thought I was a loon! was quite something though, must get roung to getting a decent telescope!

Davem

jcb33 · 22 Mar 2007 at 03:03

I have been seeing this for a while now, its always there when i get home from work around 5:30, and stays untill late in the night, it is very low, and almost opposite my house, and always away from the moon

dbmzk1 · 22 Mar 2007 at 03:49

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html