Topic: Did anyone see....
JustLooking3's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:07 AM
The ISS fly over last night? At 6:22pm Central time the ISS flew over the southern sky, there was only a two minute viewable window, so I had stepped out on the porch to watch.
After I had watched it streak about half way across the sky, I noticed a much dimmer light traveling at about the same speed & direction, then realized that the Space Shuttle had just recently undocked from the ISS.
It was the coolest thing to watch them both fly over with what looked liked only a couple inches apart in the sky.

Puffins1958's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:11 AM
No....

I didn't get to see it. Must be because I'm in NY. It must have been great to see though...

ohwell ohwell ohwell

trueokie2's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:13 AM
noway .. missed it.. was eating supper at that time.. ohwell

Jahdie's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:16 AM
I wish I would have seen that!! :angry:

no photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:26 AM
Why can't we see it every night? noway

JustLooking3's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:37 AM

Why can't we see it every night? noway

Not sure other than a constantly changing flight path. Most of the time you just don't know WHEN they will be flying over and is easily missed.
I have seen the Space Shuttle & ISS fly over several other times before, just never together like that.
There is a calculator on www.nasa.gov that will tell you the next time the ISS is viewable, I'll try to hunt down that link if any of you are interested.

MirrorMirror's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:37 AM
drinker

JustLooking3's photo
Tue 02/19/08 06:51 AM
Edited by JustLooking3 on Tue 02/19/08 06:56 AM
OK found that link if you want to view or track the ISS or Shuttle.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/sightings/

Oh and a hint: you will want to make sure your clocks are accurate, if there a minute or two off, you'll probably miss it.

no photo
Tue 02/19/08 12:21 PM
Dude it is awesome to see that,the shuttle AND the station on the same pass. I have only seen that once before. Another site to check out is www.heavens-above. You can check out all kinds of things flying overhead. I find it an easier site to work from. I check it out on a regular basis. Northern MI is kinda cloudy from late OCT-FEB so I haven't been watching too close.

MsTeddyBear2u's photo
Tue 02/19/08 12:25 PM
I saw the one last year... saw one brighter what looked like
a star (shuttle) and a dimmer one (station). It was kind of neat!

JustLooking3's photo
Tue 02/19/08 02:05 PM
I would have guessed that it would have been the other way around, just because the station is a good deal larger. Either way it was very cool to see bigsmile glasses glasses

AaronzDad's photo
Tue 02/19/08 02:18 PM
I want 'em to shoot down that satellite at night so we can all watch it go *BOOM*

drinker

JustLooking3's photo
Tue 02/19/08 02:20 PM
Yea that would be cool bigsmile drinker drinker

PATSFAN's photo
Tue 02/19/08 02:24 PM
I was here posting in the forumslaugh