Image of the Day
(http://bruce.org.uk/images/NileDelta.jpg)
An evening view of the Nile Delta from the ISS
Courtesy NASA
Love it..... is there a live feed letting us know where the ISS is currently moving.....
As it happens you may be in luck tonight or from tomorrow:
Rhese co-ordinaries are for Walvis Bay but being so high you might see it.
ISS
Mon Jan 30/09:48 PM
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22
22 above WSW 22 above WSW
ISS
Tue Jan 31/08:51 PM
3
55
15 above SSW 35 above ENE
ISS
Wed Feb 01/09:31 PM
2
15
11 above W 15 above NW
ISS
Thu Feb 02/08:36 PM
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33 above WSW 11 above NNE
ISS
Sat Feb 04/08:20 PM
2
17
16 above WNW 11 above NNW
ISS
Sun Feb 12/06:12 AM
2
14
11 above NNE 14 above ENE
ISS
Tue Feb 14/05:53 AM
4
36
10 above NNW 31 above E
ISS
Wed Feb 15/04:59 AM
2
13
13 above NE 10 above E
I was out in my portapool floating on my back in the darkness at around 11h00 on Monday Night.... noticed a bright light moving at a rapid rate from west to east...... this was towards the south.... it was bright whilst still over the dark Atlantic.... but as it crossed over into the African subcontinent ... it faded........ took about two to three minutes.... wondered if it might have been the ISS
Mike
I think it was. Geberally the flight paths look like the one below. See how section 5 swoops north up the SW coastline.
I have been observing the sky at night here for many years and have seen a shuttle catching up with ISS which is very bright in the sky. It is huge and a lot of reflected sunlight gets reditected to us here on the ground.
So yessir I reckon you did see ISS. Keep a lookout tonight and tomorrow
(http://bruce.org.uk/images/yuri-gagarin5a.jpg)
The image above is Yuri Gagarin's flightpath from the 60's. See how at point 5 he did get close to the Namibian coastline. And this flightpath seems to be atypical of a lot of missions' flight path. The craft do not do straight lines around Earth!