International Space Station

[GoktimusPrime]

The ISS was visible over Australia for a couple of minutes after 17:31 today. Those of us in Sydney had the best view.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-08/international-space-station-to-appear-close-to-jupiter-and-venus/6604592

I ran out of my place and tried to snap some blurry photos with my phone, but I was surprised at how quickly it moved across the sky. Only managed to snap two quick pics. :)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/iss_zpshqkm27cm.jpg
Obviously just the pics on the left and centre are mine, the others are photos of the ISS which I pinched off Google. :o

Did anyone else see it or take (hopefully better) pics? If so, feel free to share. :D

[UltraMarginal]

I had no idea it was passing overhead, unfortunately I'm still at work so had little hope of seeing it anyway.

[Demonac]

Heavens Above (http://www.heavens-above.com/) is great for finding out the best times to see the ISS.

[Trent]

When I was a teenager my friend had a house on a lake outside Ulladulla that we used to stay at all the time. Because there was so little light pollution, we would count sometimes in the hundreds of objects visible in low orbit each night. A few times we even saw the space shuttle. Speed ranged from slow (hard to tell if moving or not) to astonishingly quick (space shuttle).

Good times.

[Jetfire in the sky]

I've been lucky to see the ISS hammering across the sky, it's amazing, it looks so low compared to most satellites plus way bigger.

[UltraMarginal]

Heavens Above (http://www.heavens-above.com/) is great for finding out the best times to see the ISS.

cool thanks


When I was a teenager my friend had a house on a lake outside Ulladulla that we used to stay at all the time. Because there was so little light pollution, we would count sometimes in the hundreds of objects visible in low orbit each night. A few times we even saw the space shuttle. Speed ranged from slow (hard to tell if moving or not) to astonishingly quick (space shuttle).

Good times.

sounds like great times to me!

[Megatran]

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/iss_zpshqkm27cm.jpg
Obviously just the pics on the left and centre are mine, the others are photos of the ISS which I pinched off Google. :o

Oh wow Gok. You managed to capture the ISS antenna at the bottom of the left pic. It shows up very clear. Great camera work. ;)

[philby]

that's no moon, it's a space station
http://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2015/07/station_moon_transit/15507470-1-eng-GB/Station_Moon_transit_node_full_image_2.jpg

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/07/Station_Moon_transit

[griffin]

Celestially related... I've been seeing what I believe is Venus in the western sky in recent nights, about an hour or so after the sun goes down. It was so bright when I first saw it I thought it was a plane or comet, because the "white noise" of city lighting in my area means I don't usually see stars in the night sky without really concentrating and squinting. Since it wasn't moving, I knew it wasn't a plane... and it was way too big to be a star, so figured it had to be something planetary, and from what I can tell, Venus is currently visible to us during July.
(if only I had a telescope to get a good look at it while it is so close to us)

[GoktimusPrime]

In Sydney we can see Venus and Jupiter pretty close to each other in the night sky. :) I driving home from returning some rental DVDs earlier this evening and I slowed down to admire the two planets. :D

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Celestially related... I've been seeing what I believe is Venus in the western sky in recent nights, about an hour or so after the sun goes down. It was so bright when I first saw it I thought it was a plane or comet, because the "white noise" of city lighting in my area means I don't usually see stars in the night sky without really concentrating and squinting. Since it wasn't moving, I knew it wasn't a plane... and it was way too big to be a star, so figured it had to be something planetary, and from what I can tell, Venus is currently visible to us during July.
(if only I had a telescope to get a good look at it while it is so close to us)

A really good pair of binoculars are also a good alternative for closer night viewing. I had a pair and would spend a lot of time gazing at the moon through them.

[Megatran]

Celestially related... I've been seeing what I believe is Venus in the western sky in recent nights, about an hour or so after the sun goes down. It was so bright when I first saw it I thought it was a plane or comet, because the "white noise" of city lighting in my area means I don't usually see stars in the night sky without really concentrating and squinting. Since it wasn't moving, I knew it wasn't a plane... and it was way too big to be a star, so figured it had to be something planetary, and from what I can tell, Venus is currently visible to us during July.
(if only I had a telescope to get a good look at it while it is so close to us)


In Sydney we can see Venus and Jupiter pretty close to each other in the night sky. :) I driving home from returning some rental DVDs earlier this evening and I slowed down to admire the two planets. :D
Me thinks you guys have been passively smoking with Snoop Dog. :D

[GoktimusPrime]

Me thinks you guys have been passively smoking with Snoop Dog. :D
I... don't understand that reference. :confused: (unless you're talking about this (http://news.tfw2005.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/07/QTF-Snoopy.jpg)) :confused:

From ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-08/international-space-station-appeared-close-to-jupiter-and-venus/6604592)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/iss_abcnews_zpsjudegnff.jpg
A rare celestial conjunction has made Venus and Jupiter drift closer together over the past few weeks, coming to the closest point on Friday.
While around 670 million kilometres apart, the two planets were side by side and wowed astronomy enthusiasts all over the world.
The space station regularly circles the earth but it is likely this is the first time it has appeared so close to the two planets which recently aligned.

[griffin]

This was one of the better photos on my phone that I took on the 1st of July (of what should be Venus and Jupiter), when I first noticed the bright light in the western sky just after dark (and as you can see, no other stars are bright enough to be seen through the white noise of the suburban lighting where I am... which is why it got my attention enough to try to figure out what it was).

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/c865.jpg

[Trent]

This was one of the better photos on my phone that I took on the 1st of July (of what should be Venus and Jupiter), when I first noticed the bright light in the western sky just after dark (and as you can see, no other stars are bright enough to be seen through the white noise of the suburban lighting where I am... which is why it got my attention enough to try to figure out what it was).

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/blog/c865.jpg

Lol.

http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc88/Wrxus/d7d896a746da96005b55113b1a42b22e.jpg

[Akky82]

^ this, every time there's a large/super or red/orange moon and my wife wants a photo >_<

A telescope is somethingI've wanted to get for a long time, just afraid people might think its for creeping ^_^

[Demonac]

A telescope is somethingI've wanted to get for a long time, just afraid people might think its for creeping ^_^

You're thinking of facebook. :)

[GoktimusPrime]

You're thinking of facebook. :)
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y227/goktimusprime/avatars/likeaboss.jpg