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Cavey
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11th Aug 12 at 19:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
https://twitter.com/VirtualAstro

Apparently best time is from 2300 through till dawn
fred7
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does it matter where you are? best places etc?
Cole
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11th Aug 12 at 20:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
clear skies here in thre south east so should be pretty good
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its pritty clear here aswell. just read on that site about ISS passing over tonite from 22.43
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Got myself the Sputnik! app for my iPhone, apparently the ISS is passing over here at 22:42 tonight.
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Supposed to have been good last night too, didnt see anything at 3.30 this morning but not seen it so clear in a long time!
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quote:
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Got myself the Sputnik! app for my iPhone, apparently the ISS is passing over here at 22:42 tonight.

Saw it
Cavey
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Definitely saw the ISS fly past, think I got a meteor as well. There's some fucking low cloud around here at the moment
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Too much cloud
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It was pretty amazing to watch

Might (pretend to) be a space nerd and buy a telescope
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Anyone seen the planet that's stupidly visible at like 4 in the morning? Proper bright, really cool
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quote:
Originally posted by p
Anyone seen the planet that's stupidly visible at like 4 in the morning? Proper bright, really cool


I think I saw that last night, thought it was a helicopter
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saw the iss and 1 meteor best way tp see them is tp gp out into the countryside where there are no streetlamps you will see alot more if you do
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I went to an observatory down near Hastings to see this about two years ago. The two guy from The Sky At Night were there. They gave a talk and then stayed all night with us all telling us where to look and shit. Saw Saturn through a motherfuking massive scope.
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I was out last week at about 3 in the morning and saw what looked like a star moving slowly across the sky, getting brighter then much duller all in the space of about 20-30secs. Thought it was a plane at first but it was definetely a solid white light, weirded me out a bit

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Cole
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That was the space station
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quote:
Originally posted by adiohead
I went to an observatory down near Hastings to see this about two years ago. The two guy from The Sky At Night were there. They gave a talk and then stayed all night with us all telling us where to look and shit. Saw Saturn through a motherfuking massive scope.


Herstmonceux science centre
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Couldn't see shit last night as it was quite cloudy, but a few times when night fishing I've seen all sorts of stuff thanks to my google skymap app.

Nothing beats a night out away from the lights of human settlement to see all this stuff.

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