Re: ISS sightings


"canopus56" <canopus56@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mike Thomas wrote:
This link only seems to give night time sightings. what about daytime
events
when it traverses the disc of the sun? Is there a site that indicates 24
hour locations? http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/

Calcsky will filter out Sun disk transits for the ISS.
http://www.calsky.com/

They are rare for any specific geographic location.

- Canopus56


Actually I would like to know what the lat and long of it was at about 23:15
UT today the 16th because I was
observing the suns disc and taking note of small birds (i guess) and other
"things" that to me appeared to be
air born seed from vegetation (fluff). At one point I thought I saw for a
fleeting moment the ISS too! This event
was noticeably larger than these other things at 80X's magnification. The
suns disc was totally visible because
the FOV was ~ 0.7 degrees.

This is all new to me because I realized there were no sun spots however I
wanted to study the disc anyway to see if I could pick out faculae.
During that time I discovered that there are plenty of air born objects that
become apparent across the suns disc.

I saw large birds too...hawks for fleeting moments. I just want to know
where the ISS was too because I may have seen it.


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