Questions and comments

[kinzel]

Have you seen the stars tonight?

No? How about the space station? I went out last night figuring that the combination of the ISS with a new bigger solar cell wing and the docked shuttle ought to be bright and shiny object... and it was. Here's a link to go look for yourself....

http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States

please, let me know if you've seen it.

And for the record, how many of you know how many people are in orbit around the earth right now? Can you name more than two?

BTW, next time I'm going to take my binoculars. Am wondering ... what kind of a photo might I get of the ISS from ground level (137 feet above sea level)... Should I get a camera for my "backyard" NexStar telescope?

Thanks, everyone, for the tips on CS2. This week coming should see some major work, finally on the SRM projects that have been sitting not-so-quietly. Oddly enough, I'm going to have to buy another 10 ISBNs or so....

Next:

If you happen to have an email in the hopper to me today... it may be awhile getting answered. Not only are the usual things going on, like auctions I might be watching over on ebay: #250128438119 and #250128451809 .... but our ISP reports they'll be doing some nifty server updates over the next few days. Outages shouldn't be for more than a moment or two if at all... but then we now how that can go....

Chapter 19b needs work. Off I go.

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Comments

[baggette.livejournal.com]

I happened to be out in the gardens about 9:30 last night and looking at the sky. I did see a light moving across the sky and assumed it was probably an artificial satellite. Having no television or news paper subscription, I have no idea what's going on. I think I will keep it that way until George comes home.

Too many clouds again!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

We've been having evening cloudiness, so haven't been able to see. However, thanks to your helpful link (change the country to Japan - case sensitive - and it works just fine) we know when to look, and at this point, have a little troup of four who are happily going out and trying to spot it. So I figure as soon as the clouds let up, we'll find it.

And thanks for starting something! Now people here at the grad school know Mike really does watch the skies, and some of them do, too :-)

Re: Too many clouds again!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Ha! We had light clouds tonight, but took a chance. And . . .

There it was! Sailing stately up and over. Quite visible.

And ignore the four crazies cheering it on out on the grad school lawn.

Thanks again!

Two lights, coursing the skies

[(Anonymous)]

I was putting our younger to bed when my husband bounded up the stairs. "Station pass, mit Shuttle!"

Down we went, and out, and saw them sailing by, brightly overhead.

Let us give thanks for dark skies.

Laura