HiI'm a curious Dane searching for an answer.Does anyone know (I have searched and searched since sunday) where to find some tracking history for STS-124's first 3 hours around eath after lift-off.I was standing on my porch having a cigarette around midnight saturday night the 31th of May in Copenhagen, Denmark, EU looking south. Suddenly a light came from east going west taking about 1-2 minutes, it went a lot faster than an ordinary plane and I think it was too bright to be a satellite.So I like to find a place where I can confirm either it was STS-124 or not. Can someone help me please???
We got to remember, June, Midnight in Denmark is just a few hours after sunset.
I had no chance of seeing the recent evening passes over the UK due to cloudy conditions.....but yesterday decided to have a look at the station in daylightAt a range of just short of 400km , imaging it wasn't easy , especially as it was not visible , even through the viewfinder . So it was a matter of zoning in on a pinpoint in the sky and waiting for the target to pass by !FOV was about 6 arc minutes.You can see the result athttp://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/daylight.htmlJohn
Eyewatering! 7 June at 2114 Vegas time. I just watched the shuttle and station go ever overhead. Now I have seen alot of things (flying with NVGs {Nigh Vision Goggles} fly overhead. This was 1 hour after sunset and it was so bright I had to convince myself it wasn't a plane (no flashing lights). Longer than wide, it was the station / shuttle. Only one word to describe it...AWESOME!Best of luck station and shuttle.
Hey DeanG1967,My wife and I saw exactly the same from our back garden in the northwest of the valley!If was a fantastic overpass tonight, especially with the moon and Mars as well.PaulQuote from: DeanG1967 on 06/08/2008 04:20 amEyewatering! 7 June at 2114 Vegas time. I just watched the shuttle and station go ever overhead. Now I have seen alot of things (flying with NVGs {Nigh Vision Goggles} fly overhead. This was 1 hour after sunset and it was so bright I had to convince myself it wasn't a plane (no flashing lights). Longer than wide, it was the station / shuttle. Only one word to describe it...AWESOME!Best of luck station and shuttle.
Yea I just did a check on my location and with one exception of a very low pass that probably won't be visible tomorrow night, I got nothing for several weeks now in Southern Ontario - oh well.
Windows Media doesn't allow for screenshots (well actually you can PrintScreen the window if you disable hardware acceleration), but VLC is a much better media player with a screenshot tool.Now what would be really cool is a sighting where you can see the station pass over and see the ground on the TV. Obviously this can't really happen, but it'd be cool. I guess there might be those times right around dusk where it might happen, I don't know.
hans - with a telescope, i have tried, good luck but it is really hard
to all ground observers...are there any special techniques for observing the ISS and/or the Shuttle using a telescope?I have a 3-4 inch refractor here, and have tried spotting the ISS with it when any opportunity arrived... but since that thing moves so quick, I'm having difficulty even putting my scope's view to the orbit path of the station... and when I sometimes got lucky, its even harder to keep the station in my field of view...the only detail I recalled seeing are the P-6 truss SAWs (back when the ISS was still in its post STS-113 config)
Keep both eyes open. Before you start, find something (like the moon or a bright star) and figure out where in your vision that object appears relative to the telescope view. Your brain merges the images, and the "dot" seen with your non-scope'd eye will appear somewhere in the telescope's field-of-view. Memorize that, and when the ISS comes by put it at that same place and it will magically appear in the scope'd eye.
