03-04-2016, 08:46 AM
"...when I see it I always feel in awe knowing there are people in that bright fast-moving light."
Exactly what I was thinking when I was watching it. That and imagining what someone who wasn't aware of what it was they were looking at might think.
More from Wikipedia: "Because of the size of its reflective surface area, the ISS is the brightest man-made object in the sky excluding flares, with an approximate maximum magnitude of -4 when overhead, similar to Venus. The ISS, like many satellites..., can also produce flares of up to 8 or 16 times the brightness of Venus as sunlight glints off reflective surfaces.[291][292]"
That would be fun to catch one of those moments when sunlight is reflected much more brightly.
This was the first time I had seen the ISS, knowingly.
Edit: grammar.
Exactly what I was thinking when I was watching it. That and imagining what someone who wasn't aware of what it was they were looking at might think.
More from Wikipedia: "Because of the size of its reflective surface area, the ISS is the brightest man-made object in the sky excluding flares, with an approximate maximum magnitude of -4 when overhead, similar to Venus. The ISS, like many satellites..., can also produce flares of up to 8 or 16 times the brightness of Venus as sunlight glints off reflective surfaces.[291][292]"
That would be fun to catch one of those moments when sunlight is reflected much more brightly.
This was the first time I had seen the ISS, knowingly.
Edit: grammar.