spotting the space station...

[majorcatfish]

for those of you who like sitting outside at night or early morning with a cup of coffee and watching the stars or satellites going overhead...
here's something neat spot the space station from nasa....
all you have to do is sign up and they will send you e-mails when it's going to be visible in your area....
just might get to see this evening if it's dark enough at 7;15 will last for 4 mins

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/index.cfm

 

[digitS']

Ha!

I remember going outside and watching Sputnik.

But, we were all ...

Steve
My spell checker doesn't know the word "sputnik" ..! I need to retire to the lazyboy ...

 

[thistlebloom]

You know how when you're camping and you wake up every 15.5 minutes and wonder if it's dawn yet? And then you lay back and watch the stars rotate overhead and see a shiny one moving along in exactly the same space of sky every so often? I know those are satellites...but I wonder how you can tell an ordinary satellite from the space station.
It would be fun to see it and know that's what it was. Cloudy here tonight.

 

[majorcatfish]

received my daily e-mail reminder about spotting the station,it was just at the right in the evening and it was clear as a bell <finally> there it was right on time.sat out for about 30 mins whole cow there are a ton of satellites cruising around up there you can see even with a partial moon.

 

[Smart Red]

Watched Sputnik and its monkey pass overhead one evening with Dad. Other than that, I haven't done much (man-made) satellite watching.