Thread Rating:
  • 2 Vote(s) - 3 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
ISS, Tiangong, Satellites Over Puna
More on Inspiration4 crew member Sian Proctor’s Hawaii connection:
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/09/14/p...e-mission/

How to watch the launch, Wed, Sept 15:
https://www.cnet.com/how-to/spacex-inspi...ive-today/
Reply
Inspiration4 has launched and reached orbit!
The capsule will be visible over Puna tomorrow morning:
Wednesday, Sept 16
Rises: 5:19 AM in the northwest
Sets: 5:29 toward the southeast
Brightness: Magnitude 3.0
Reply
Ukulele in space!  
https://twitter.com/spaceflightnow/statu...42916?s=21
Reply
When you look up at the moon at night, did you ever wonder what the view is like from the other side?  The DSCOVR spacecraft is positioned in an orbit 1 million miles away from earth, and captured a series of photos (rendered as a video animation) of the far side of the moon passing over the Pacific Ocean and Hawaii:
https://scitechdaily.com/this-is-real-na...-of-earth/
Reply
There’s are fairly bright pass of the ISS tonight:

Sunday, Feb 6
Rises: 7:01 PM in the northwest
Sets: 7:08 PM in the southeast
Magnitude: -3.5


Attached Files Thumbnail(s)
   
Reply
Would you like your name in orbit around the moon?
A little bit of Puna, circling the Moon(a)?
Add your name here to have it included on a flash drive that will fly aboard Artemis I.
Sign up:

https://www.nasa.gov/send-your-name-with-artemis/
Reply
Mysterious space whirlpool observed from Mauna Kea

This got some people to freak out:

https://youtu.be/dRUA9b4iPG0

Turns out it was what was left of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket venting unspent fuel as it started its spiraling descent into the atmosphere.
Reply
The good news, there’s a new bright satellite named BlueWalker about to be launched Saturday.  It will be one of the brightest objects in the night sky.
The bad news, if successful, there could be another 100 of them by 2024:

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...-can-help/
Reply
Very interesting and very creepy. One occasionally, cool. A hundred... wow.
Certainty will be the death of us.
Reply
whooo hoo . anything that gets PUNAweb to upload faster is great..right ?

Tom, how do you guys deal with these things photo bombing you so to speak ?
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 12 Guest(s)