Space Station Sighting?

jondf

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21 Aug 2011 - 10:59 PM

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Arrived home this evening around 10pm and looked up at the stars (as one often does) when I spotted a large blob of light coming from a south-westerly direction. It was moving uniformly like a satellite but was much bigger. I rushed inside to get the binoculars but the blob just looked bigger with no additional resolution. Anyone know if the ISS was due over the UK tonight?

chrelen

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21 Aug 2011 - 11:21 PM

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Sounds like it and the time was about right. Its around most evenings now. There's a website you can go on to check out when its due (http://www.isstracker.com/) or tweet @peoplesastro for updates

jondf

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22 Aug 2011 - 10:50 AM

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Thanks all...

Metalhead

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22 Aug 2011 - 1:13 PM

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The heavens-above.com website is one of the best resources for showing sightings of all the thousands of man-made Earth satellites up there. The Iridium ones can flare up so bright sometimes that I've seen them in daylight!

I've also found that they do an Android app which basically points you to the place in the sky that you should be looking! Very clever stuff.

Ewanneil

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22 Aug 2011 - 10:30 PM

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Just watched it go over. Despite partial cloud cover it was so bright we could still see it. Even my wife and son, who are usually difficult to enthuse over such things, were impressed.

simont

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23 Aug 2011 - 10:02 AM

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Quote: Makes you wonder how many folk think it's a UFO?

Seemingly quite a few - The Raelian Movement