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Ever watch the satellites?
- Thread starter Omega Man
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61996
IBA# 5819
This is a great site for satellite viewing. Just plug in your zip code, go outside and look up: http://spaceweather.com/flybys/flybys.php
While staying in a little cabin at a motel west of Saint Ignace, Mi. Setting outside of cabin have a few beers , small campfire facing north saw a satellite, than another and another etc. satellites going west to east and east to west one after another thinking what is to the north and it came to me Canadians they are protecting us from Canada
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I lived in North Central Oklahoma in the early 1970s. The local newspaper published a satellite timetable listing time, direction of travel and how high off the horizon to watch. It was the most exciting thing to happen after dark in Enid, OK. It was the only exciting thing to happen after dark in Enid.
Friedle
Friedle
If I lived where you do........I would seriously consider a skylight & a decent power telescope.
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rsbeemer
Satellites, shooting stars and UFO's
In 2016 I spent 3 months sailing from Capetown SA to Annapolis Maryland. It's amazing what you can see on a clear night in the middle of the ocean. Many shooting stars and a few satellites was a nightly occurrence on night watch. I think I saw a few UFO's also, but I'm not sure. I guess that's why there called UFO's.
This off the subject but I saw a once in a lifetime event for me one night on watch. It must have been a shooting star coming directly toward me from the direction I was looking. Of course it happened very quickly but it was just like a bright light coming toward me and then all of a sudden it went out. Ok, I feel better since I got that off my chest.
In 2016 I spent 3 months sailing from Capetown SA to Annapolis Maryland. It's amazing what you can see on a clear night in the middle of the ocean. Many shooting stars and a few satellites was a nightly occurrence on night watch. I think I saw a few UFO's also, but I'm not sure. I guess that's why there called UFO's.
This off the subject but I saw a once in a lifetime event for me one night on watch. It must have been a shooting star coming directly toward me from the direction I was looking. Of course it happened very quickly but it was just like a bright light coming toward me and then all of a sudden it went out. Ok, I feel better since I got that off my chest.
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Member
Been watching the sky, for satellites for years. Used to lay on the Baja beaches at night and watch them on our extended camping trips in the seventies. More recently (the last forty years), from hunting camp, in the ID mountains. Last summer at the Stanley Stomp (Grande Jean, ID), watched them while sitting around the campfire. First saw the ISS while attending the Chief Joseph Rally at John Day, OR, several years ago. Since then we've seen it several times from our front deck. Last night saw some of Elon's satellites (SpaceX Starlink satellites), a string of probably thirty, moving across the sky. Looks like there'll be many more before long. Very little light pollution here in the central ID.
22600
rsbeemer
Idaho beautiful
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I was in Idaho in Sept. 2019 on a 6 month RV trip....Idaho is a beautiful state and yes the sky is really clear once you get out in the boonies.
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I was in Idaho in Sept. 2019 on a 6 month RV trip....Idaho is a beautiful state and yes the sky is really clear once you get out in the boonies.
pglaves
#13338
Where we live in the Texas Big Bend just northwest of Big Bend National Park and just east of Big Bend Ranch State Park is within an International Dark Sky Place.
See: https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/
On any of the many clear sky nights (it is a desert) our view of the skies is truly spectacular. And when the ISS is going past somebody always posts the time and direction on local Facebook pages to alert folks to go out and watch it. Sometimes it gets lost among the illumination of a swirling Milky Way.
See: https://www.darksky.org/our-work/conservation/idsp/
On any of the many clear sky nights (it is a desert) our view of the skies is truly spectacular. And when the ISS is going past somebody always posts the time and direction on local Facebook pages to alert folks to go out and watch it. Sometimes it gets lost among the illumination of a swirling Milky Way.
pglaves
#13338
Of course. When I was in the Air Force 50 years ago they were watching then too. I thrust a finger skyward every now and then just to antagonize the watchers.
Ya know what else is up there?
The good ol' US of A has left 3 functioning "Cars" on the Moon!
What a guy thing, go up to the moon and drive around.
To bad they didn't have any females on those trips, coulda gone for a real Moonlight drive!
Maybe get lucky in the LEM just before night night time.
The good ol' US of A has left 3 functioning "Cars" on the Moon!
What a guy thing, go up to the moon and drive around.
To bad they didn't have any females on those trips, coulda gone for a real Moonlight drive!
Maybe get lucky in the LEM just before night night time.
The Great Conjunction 12-21-2020
It's a big deal in the sky tonight.
Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on Dec. 21 in an event astronomers call the "great conjunction" — also referred to as the "Christmas Star" — marking the planets' closest encounter in nearly 400 years.
When Saturn and Jupiter converge on Dec. 21, the two planets may appear as a bright point of light that will be easily visible in the night sky. The two planets have slowly been moving closer to each other over the past few weeks.
A conjunction occurs when planets appear incredibly close to one another in the sky because they line up with Earth in their respective orbits.
More here- https://www.space.com/great-conjunction-jupiter-saturn-christmas-star-2020-nasa-tips
I think I remember seeing this when I was younger
OM
It's a big deal in the sky tonight.
Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on Dec. 21 in an event astronomers call the "great conjunction" — also referred to as the "Christmas Star" — marking the planets' closest encounter in nearly 400 years.
When Saturn and Jupiter converge on Dec. 21, the two planets may appear as a bright point of light that will be easily visible in the night sky. The two planets have slowly been moving closer to each other over the past few weeks.
A conjunction occurs when planets appear incredibly close to one another in the sky because they line up with Earth in their respective orbits.
More here- https://www.space.com/great-conjunction-jupiter-saturn-christmas-star-2020-nasa-tips
I think I remember seeing this when I was younger
OM
It's a big deal in the sky tonight.
Jupiter and Saturn will align in the night sky on Dec. 21 in an event astronomers call the "great conjunction" — also referred to as the "Christmas Star" — marking the planets' closest encounter in nearly 400 years.
When Saturn and Jupiter converge on Dec. 21, the two planets may appear as a bright point of light that will be easily visible in the night sky. The two planets have slowly been moving closer to each other over the past few weeks.
A conjunction occurs when planets appear incredibly close to one another in the sky because they line up with Earth in their respective orbits.
More here- https://www.space.com/great-conjunction-jupiter-saturn-christmas-star-2020-nasa-tips
I think I remember seeing this when I was younger
OM
Saw it when you were younger?? Please share your secret to living 800 years!
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