Alright, this is for sharing of your observation experience. Or, if you are arranging gatherings, star-gazing expeditions or just want some company to go observing together, you can shout it out here.
Wow! Thanks Gary. The clouds cleared just in time for me to see the bright spot scooting across the sky, like it had some important business on the other side of the world.
Which it probably did
Let me not waste this opportunity to ask a beginners question - on HeavensAbove, some satellites are called satellites and some are called 'rocket'. Why? I thought they were all satellites?
And on a related note - guess who's coming to visit us next week? Bright passes almost everyday ...
The ISS!! Remember to wave
Hi VeeJay! So happy you saw it! The few seconds spent copy and pasting my tweet to this thread did not go to waste.
From wikipedia -- "In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour." I think because of this broad classification of "an object", a orbiting made-man rocket is also considered a satellite.
The high and bright ISS flyby on 6 July should be amazing and at a convenient time to observe if the sky is clear.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
VeeJay wrote:It was so bright that I could even see it through the clouds!
Great you saw it too!
That's why education and awareness can let us appreciate things even more. For those who didn't know it was actually a space station and one of the brightest flyby (mag -3.5) and there is such a thing call clouds (haha), they may just perceive it as just another boring dim dot moving in the sky.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
"The importance of a telescope is not how big it is, how well made it is.
It is how many people, less fortunate than you, got to look through it."
-- John Dobson.
Thanks for sharing Gary but as usual, i just logged in...so its long gone. The once and only time I saw the ISS was in the city during an Astrofest event at the Art Museum along Bras Basah road. Very bright and it moved so quickly...too quickly!
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