Seeing the International Space Station

No sadly. I was hoping someone could tell me when she’ll be along next. :mrgreen:

Funnily enough, I saw the 11;41 by accident. It was all kicking off outside last night, the result of too much alcohol severed at the food festival. Anyway, I jumped out of bed to see what was going on and spotted the ISS going over. :-p

Gosh! that was a coincidence LD :smiley:

I saw nothing last night, after a day of clear skies it suddenly clouded over at 10pm :frowning:

This batch is coming to an end soon, last one is on Wednesday, and it won’t be back until at least the 16th.

I didn’t see it last night either, Nicol :frowning:

Why is that Nicol?

The astronauts are on holiday. ;-):lol:

Ha ha ha…:-D…I wonder if they pick out a good beach while flying over…:cool::cool::cool:

I wondered if it’s because it gradually changes orbit and drops below the horizon for a while?

Having consulted with the expert (more expert than me, I just post the times) Colin has said it’s to do with the earths wobble, conflicting orbits plus it could well be going over us but in the day time when it’s not visible.

Thanks Nicol, but after looking at the posted times I see that it passes overhead’ish every ninety minutes or so. Would it not continue to orbit through the night also?..

Yes but it only visible when the Sun shines on it. If it is in the Earths shadow you won’t see it.

Exactly, it tends to be visible so long after Sunset or before Sunrise when the Sun can still catch it…

As I said, I’m no expert, I just post the times. I don’t question it, it just happens :smiley:

What we see when we see the Space Station is not any external lights from the Station itself but we see the Sun reflecting off the solar array of the station, the only time you will catch it every 90 minutes is in the Month of December when they have it decked out in the Christmas Lights.

:043: http://www.katzy.dsl.pipex.com/Smileys/Santa.gif

I still can’t make up my mind if you are joking about the Christmas lights, DW :lol:

The very thought Mags :shock:

:mrgreen:

I saw it last night.
I thought it was going to be too cloudy, and just as I was giving up and going back indoors I saw it. :023:

Although it was cloudy, it wasn’t solid cloud, so I could see it for a minute, then it desappeard into cloud, then was visible again.
That’s the third time I have managed to watch it now, and I am chuffed. :slight_smile:

Thanks Purwell, yes, of course…:023: