International Space Station

John Haycox · February 09, 2009, 06:53:08 PM

The International Space Station is predicted to be visible Oranjemund at the following times (SAST): Let me know if you see it.

SATELLITE--------- DATE------- TIME---- S-AZ MAX EL----- DURATION E-AZ SUNLIT VISIBLE
ARISS

09 FEB 2009 05:21:43 212 27 (AZ 139) 00:09:57 063 Yes Yes
ARISS
09 FEB 2009 20:10:54 351 15 (AZ 054) 00:09:12 117 Yes Yes
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10 FEB 2009 05:49:25 228 49 (AZ 306) 00:10:11 033 Yes Yes
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10 FEB 2009 20:37:55 320 77 (AZ 058) 00:10:25 136 Yes Yes
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12 FEB 2009 05:09:39 231 37 (AZ 306) 00:10:04 028 Yes Yes
ARISS
13 FEB 2009 20:26:25 286 17 (AZ 219) 00:09:33 153 Yes Yes
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14 FEB 2009 20:55:50 254 05 (AZ 211) 00:07:05 168 Yes Yes
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16 FEB 2009 20:16:19 248 04 (AZ 209) 00:06:32 170 Yes Yes
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26 FEB 2009 20:13:46 172 00 (AZ 159) 00:02:27 145 Yes Yes
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27 FEB 2009 20:39:39 194 06 (AZ 149) 00:07:23 103 Yes Yes
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01 MAR 2009 19:59:15 196 07 (AZ 148) 00:07:51 098 Yes Yes
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02 MAR 2009 20:26:08 210 23 (AZ 141) 00:09:53 067 Yes Yes
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04 MAR 2009 19:45:45 213 28 (AZ 140) 00:10:03 063 Yes Yes
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05 MAR 2009 20:13:07 228 51 (AZ 305) 00:10:18 033 Yes Yes
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08 MAR 2009 20:01:03 253 08 (AZ 303) 00:07:58 355 Yes Yes

Bertie Horak · February 09, 2009, 08:52:17 PM

It's time I start watching it again, used to get the times, altitude and direction on Nasa's website regularly. Thanx John!

John Haycox · March 01, 2009, 06:49:17 PM

The International Space Station will again be visible over Oranjemund at the following times and dates.

SATELLITE----------DATE-----------TIME----S-AZ----MAX EL-DURATION-E-AZ-SUNLIT VISIBLE
ARISS

01 MAR 2009 19:58:32 196 07 (AZ 148) 00:07:49 099 Yes Yes
ARISS
02 MAR 2009 20:25:20 210 22 (AZ 141) 00:09:51 068 Yes Yes
ARISS
04 MAR 2009 19:44:48 212 27 (AZ 139) 00:10:02 063 Yes Yes
ARISS
05 MAR 2009 20:12:05 228 53 (AZ 305) 00:10:18 034 Yes Yes
ARISS
08 MAR 2009 19:59:41 252 08 (AZ 303) 00:08:04 356 Yes Yes
ARISS
16 MAR 2009 06:02:29 358 11 (AZ 056) 00:08:34 112 Yes Yes
ARISS
17 MAR 2009 06:28:37 325 55 (AZ 054) 00:10:14 133 Yes Yes
ARISS
19 MAR 2009 05:47:36 321 72 (AZ 059) 00:10:16 135 Yes Yes
ARISS
20 MAR 2009 06:15:04 292 22 (AZ 220) 00:09:44 150 Yes Yes
ARISS
23 MAR 2009 06:02:46 256 06 (AZ 211) 00:07:14 167 Yes Yes
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24 MAR 2009 06:33:10 213 00 (AZ 202) 00:02:06 190 Yes Yes

John Haycox · March 01, 2009, 06:52:12 PM

I like these smileys that kreep into the message 202 means two hundred and two not laugh out loud.

Michael Alexander · March 01, 2009, 06:57:30 PM

then this is

200 hundred times!!!!!!!!!!

Carl Wrbka · December 04, 2011, 06:03:29 AM

You can tune in to the ISS on the 2mr HAM band at 144MHz when it passes over our side of the globe. Just thought I'd add that to this post...lol

toonfandangl · December 04, 2011, 08:44:13 AM

They grow a lot of Pine trees (soft wood) around this area, and when Fraser Island was being logged (hard wood) they needed workshops scattered around here for maintenance 'etc' since this all stopped they removed the maintenance sheds and left the concrete floor foundations these areas are great for telescope viewing and because they are well away from any big city light interference is not a problem. We used to meet once a month at a location picked by random so that all the area's around would get their turn!.............. the night sky absolutely brilliant wished I had my telescope there in Oranjemund have seen the ISS on many occasions and thanks to John and Carl for their input don't forget to 'LOOK UP' happy viewing.

Robert Bruce · December 04, 2011, 10:43:09 AM

At the top of my Xmas wishlist is a telescope.

Living in the deep countryside means ligth pollution is almost eradicated and the sky at night on clear nights is just a magnificent carpet of stars, meteorites and spacecraft. I see the regular comms satellites but it is the ISS and STS missions that I want(ed) to observe. I also want to get a Soyuz timetable for future ISS crew rota flights.

We watch the regular (seasonal) meteor showers and also keep a lookout for ISS and when it was still flying, the shuttles. I also want to do some interplanetery observing too.

One of my best views of shuttle and ISS was om repeated orbits of shuttle chasing ISS to dock. Brilliant. This sighting was unaided. Just the naked eye.

But now I want my telescope! Hey Santa.........

Michael Alexander · December 04, 2011, 10:51:52 AM

er.... where exactly in the countryside are you? Only place that seem's dark enough is the highlands of Scotland....

Robert Bruce · December 04, 2011, 11:04:57 AM

I live in deepest darkest Berkshire high up (all 600feet above sea-level!!!!!) away from large towns and cities in farming country. Seek out The Ridgeway in Berkshire on Google

toonfandangl · December 05, 2011, 07:24:45 AM

And here's me thinking you lived in that Castle in Scotland

but there again if you were him would you own up to the treachery you helped to dish out to Our Mel Gibson

.............yes I know he is a Yank and he only moved here when he was 12yrs but he did his hard yaka here in OZ.

Robert Bruce · December 05, 2011, 08:45:14 AM

Haahaa! Thanks toon!

toonfandangl · December 06, 2011, 01:02:56 PM

Hi Robert! it looks like you have a sense of hummer...............................................have you seen the new Kepler b 22

'NASA's planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has confirmed the discovery of its first alien world in its host star's habitable zone — that just-right range of distances that could allow liquid water to exist — and found more than 1,000 new exponent candidates, researchers announced Monday.

The new finds bring the Kepler space telescope's total haul to 2,326 potential planets in its first 16 months of operation. These discoveries, if confirmed, would quadruple the current tally of worlds known to exist beyond our solar system, which recently topped 700.

The potentially habitable alien world, a first for Kepler, orbits a star very much like our own sun. The discovery brings scientists one step closer to finding a planet like our own — one that could conceivably harbor life, scientists said. It's said at our present understanding of space travel it would take 10.000 light years bit to far away for us, for a Starship visit and I don't mean the group

Robert Bruce · December 06, 2011, 01:10:40 PM

Yes I saw the Kepler 22-B. Massive isn't it. But I fear it is pointless contemplating sending a mission to explore it. Being 600 lightyears away it might be redundant by the time it arrives to orbit the planet.

But it is nice to know that there are another 1,600 planets like it out there. It's a question of which one is closest and can sustain life.

Let's see what happens.

FYI: I am a complete space geek! Ho hum! We all need to be a little bit of a geek so space and music is my geeky niche.

toonfandangl · December 06, 2011, 01:48:35 PM

Bruce I remember coming up to Queensland and we stopped at Coonabarabran NSW site of the 3.9 meter Anglo Telescope and at that time the scientific world was searching for a glimpse of a super nova and it had just happened great experience

Letters to Nature
Nature 275, 198 - 199 (21 September 1978); doi:10.1038/275198a0

The spectrum of the supernova in MCG43223

K. H. ELLIOTT*, J. C. BLADES*, W. J. ZEALEY† & S. TRITTON†

*Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping, New South Wales 2121, Australia
†UK Schmidt Telescope Unit of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Private Bag, Coonabarabran, New South Wales 2857, Australia

A POSSIBLE SUPERNOVA in the galaxy MCG43223 was found by Gilmore1 on 8 May 1978. The complex emission and absorption features of its spectrum which we have recorded are described below. Our findings confirm that this object is a supernova of Type V.............................................................