ISS, Tiangong, Satellites Over Puna

[TomK]

So then, did anyone see tonight's flare?

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I was watching, hoping the glare would be behind a patch of thin clouds, maybe see a fuzzy glow... but no such luck.

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[TomK]

My umbrella kept getting in the way...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hurricanes Madeline and Lester as seen from cameras on the International Space Station:

http://www.space.com/33917-space-station...aston.html

- Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. - Work slowly. - Refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration. - Hold conferences. - Make travel as inconvenient as possible. - Haggle over precise wordings of communications. - Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and avoid haste. (Excerpts from the WWII OSS Simple Sabotage Manual)

[TomK]

There will be another couple of decent evening opportunities to see the ISS later this month, both after 7pm when the sky will be relatively dark. The first will be on 24th Sep and the other on Sep 26. Details nearer the time.

[TomK]

There are three good opportunities to see the ISS coming up in the next few days (there are others, but these are the best).

Saturday 24th September:

Rises 19:30 in the SSW, highest point at 19:32:28 in the south, elevation approx 50 degrees above the horizon at which point it'll enter the Earth's shadow so will disappear quickly. Magnitude -3.0 which is very bright.

Sky track: https://goo.gl/xy6nuJ
Ground track: https://goo.gl/BCC1s2

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Sunday 25th September:

Rises 05:19 in the NW, highest point 05:22:02 in the NE, elevation 88 degrees above the horizon (pretty much directly overhead), sets in the SE at 05:25:36. Magnitude -3.4 so extremely bright.

Sky track: https://goo.gl/wDPg6b
Ground track: https://goo.gl/1h5hs3

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Tuesday 27th September:

Rises at 18:30 in the SW, highest point 18:33:21 in the NW, elevation 87 degrees above the horizon (again, overhead), sets around 18:37 in the NE. Magnitude -3.3 so again extremely bright.

Sky track: https://goo.gl/c3MMc9
Ground track: https://goo.gl/Qj4rxc

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Reminder if you're outside this evening:

Time: Tue Sep 27 6:30 PM
Visible: 6 min
Max Height: 89° (almost directly overhead)
Appears: 11° above SW
Disappears: 12° above NE

AS Tom mentioned a few days ago it should be extremely bright, so let's hope it's not cloudy.

“We’ve got to be as clear-headed about human beings as possible, because we are still each other’s only hope,” James Baldwin to Margaret Mead in the book A Rap On Race

[lquade]

darn clouding over, hoping for clear sky with about 45 minutes to go... i am in mt. view but did see it last time quite clearly...

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

There will be another pass of the ISS this evening, let's hope for clear skies:

Time: Fri Oct 21 6:41 PM
Visible: 6 min
Max Height: 75°
Appears: 10° above NW, Disappears: 12° above SE

Also, there is a second space station inhabited by humans now in orbit. China launched two taikonauts to their Tiangong 2 Space Station last Sunday. There will be a moderately bright pass over Hawaii next Wednesday morning:

Date: 26 Oct
Brightness: 1.1
Start: 05:05:33
Highest point: 50°NNW

http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765&lat=19.6213&lng=-155.0394&loc=Keaau&alt=107&tz=UCT10

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[Lodestone]

Blue skies, heads up!

Here's a lovely video of ISS looking back...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJAR3-UvSQ&feature=youtu.be