ISS, Tiangong, Satellites Over Puna

[Kenney]

Really! What a unique perspective of our circumstance. A speck of scarlet. Mahalo HOTPE.

[TomK]

Apologies, not really Hawaii related, other than Jupiter is easy to see in the evening sky quite high up and slightly towards the southeast. If you could get a really close look at the planet it might look something like this from the Juno mission:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/c...of-jupiter

Abstract art and physics at the same time.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

4th of July in Puna, early morning. Photo taken onboard the International Space Station:

https://mobile.twitter.com/astro_ricky/s...9640342528

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home — dear and familiar stone hearth and garden — and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Today I favor the latter view. The word “sojourner”... invokes a nomadic people’s sense of vagrancy, a praying people’s knowledge of estrangement, a thinking people’s intuition of sharp loss: “For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” - Annie Dillard

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

The astronauts in the ISS have been keeping a close watch on Puna since the eruption began (see links to photos in posts above). Tonight is our opportunity to see them for a few minutes as they pass overhead:

Time: Fri Jul 20
7:19 PM,
Visible: 3 min
Max Height: 71°
Appears: 64° above S
Disappears: 11° above NE

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=19.6025&lng=-154.9416&loc=HPP&alt=-7&tz=UCT10&satid=25544&mjd=58320.2223671164&type=V

A bird flies home across the sky. It appears to be tired, it had a difficult day. It returns from the hunt, it was hunted. - Laszlo Krasznahorkai

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Two recent photos of Hawaii from the International Space Station:

Hurricane Hector: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkAjNHoW4AEqNY3.jpg:large
Hawaii, From Kauai to Big Island: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkCcwOkX0AE75Aa.jpg

Also just posted:
Three of the astronauts on the ISS in the Soyuz capsule wearing not space suits, but matching Aloha shirts. Nice to know Hawaii and the Aloha Spirit are circling the Earth, far beyond the islands, across every time zone, day and night. Thanks in part no doubt to Big Island boy, Ellison Onizuka:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DkFx1JgX4AE3U_6.jpg

[TomK]

The Perseids meteors peak this weekend and coincide with a nearly new moon, so the sky will be dark. For those interested and have clear skies, there should be a decent show of shooting stars Saturday night (11/12 August) and also Sunday night as the peak is quite broad, As ever, and it's just the way the solar system works, the best time to view the sky is 2 am onwards until the sky brightens, but you should be able to see a few meteors before that time.

[PaulW]

Thanks!

[PaulW]

Saw quite a few this morning around 4am, including a satellite at around 4:30, heading east.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Hurricane Lane, video from the International Space Station:
https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status...6290783238

Also, greetings Earth people, from a resident of the ISS:
#HurricaneLane in the early morning hours near #Hawaii. The crew of the @Space_Station sends much aloha to everyone there.
https://twitter.com/astro_ricky/status/1...6389972992

“What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.” - President Donald J. Trump, 7/25/18

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

NASA’s image of the day today, August 29, 2018, features the HI-SEAS habitat on Mauna Loa, with some bacground on the mission there:

The caves were a particularly tantalizing destination. In an article for Scientific American, HI-SEAS participant Christiane Heinicke noted her crew explored more than 100 caves. In a blog post, she detailed the exhilaration that came from exploring remarkable finger-shaped rock formations found in one particular cave.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images...-mauna-loa

At a White House meeting in June, President Trump reportedly told Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that “I remember Pearl Harbor.”