Viewing shuttle Endeavour & the ISS

[dave1978]

Starting to cloud over here now (Cheshire) not happy was hoping for good condidtions. Still time for things to improve though

[Ant]

STS-118 is due to dock with the ISS at 1800GMT Friday, so tonight we should see them both together

Are you sure?

According to www.heavens-above.com the shuttle tonight will go over 1 minutes (or so) before ISS.

Not sure who's right?

Ant

[stargazer1980]

according to NASA endeavour will be docking tonight! We should see them passing roughly 5 seconds apart if not already close to docking!

Darren

[SteelRat]

Way cool 8) Fingers crossed for everyone weather-wise then (and other-wise f'them up there)

[Vega]

Watching NASA TV live the shuttle is 186 feet from the station and closing as I type... (6:40pm). The next visible passing is 9:20pm so I'm pretty sure they will be docked well before then. Sorry guys!

Vega

*Update* 6:50 now under 100feet away :shock:

[SteelRat]

Dagnabbit! Though I bet it'll be a very big bright chunk with shuttle attached :shock: 8)

[Vega]

The shuttle does cast a shadow across part of the station on occasion. I don't think it makes the object look any less bright tho.. {Runs out of the thread quicksmart... quickly becoming unpopular}

Docking confirmed 7:02 GMT

Vega

[SteelRat]

Safely docked? Nice one 8) Guess they can start checking the tiles for damage soon then (fingers crossed)

[mikkey99]

They check tiles before docking

at about 65ft they rotate shuttle and iss crew take hi-res digital photos

looking at schedule they are running about 2 hrs late

means as they pass over at 21:18 they will just be opening both hatches

mike

[Ant]

That explains why only one visible for the 21:18 flyby.

Looked really nice tonight, too bright for photo's though

Really enjoyed the last few days.

Ant

[Jaffa007]

Glad I didn't miss the sight last night

Saw 21:18 flyby, wil nodoubt be up still to see next one...... ironing

[Ant]

Yep I'll be out there again!

I'm going to start trying for some Meteor shots tonight. So no doubt I'll have a photo of the ISS again in the morning.

Ant

[Jaffa007]

What a treat! Saw a meteor [south-East] 22:46pm, then a satalite pass through Cygnus, with a fireball cutting accross trail! Then another meteor in prev- position. Followed by visual ISS pass 22:50. Watched it pass over head and then dim quickly to then vanish. Stuck around few more minutes to see another fireball pass over the Plough!

Best 10 minutes [spent outside ] for a while...... well since the night before

[Times are rough'ish]

Anybody get pics, or saw the metor's???

[Ant]

I took a lovely framed pic. Had the ISS in the frame and fading as it went into the milky way. Got all excited about pressing the preview button to find that I had left the CF card in the drive on the PC from last night

Not happy, but that was a lovely pass over. Really enjoyed watching both of them tonight!

So no pic's from me tonight!

Ant

[russ]

Anyone would think you people have clear skies? Flippin poo down here

[Ant]

According to the nice woman on ther Beeb about an hour ago you should have great skies mate! Cloud coming in from the west for around tomorrow lunch time!

Thats the weather peeps for ya! Gotta dash my latest 5 min exposure is about to finish - need to set another going - star trails tonight

Ant

[russ]

Sadly your average weather person wouldn't know a cloud if it fell on them.

Wall to wall high and medium cloud here. We did glimpse ISS for 9.18 pass and the 10.53 pass. Plus 2 Perseids. One very bright one heading SW, bordering fireball.....went behind a cloud. But must have been mag -3(ish). Not far from Jupiter and outshone it.

[Vega]

Jaffa I saw the meteor too.. well bright right overhead.. nice treat. Skies are flippin lovely right now...never seen the Milky Way quite like this from my back garden i'm snapping away at Cygnus at the mo

Vega