Easy ISS

[cotterless45 11,818]

Some wonderful passes, I still wave !

[Pete Presland 11,373]

some nice sensible times there!

[chiltonstar 3,206]

Thanks for this Nick.

I saw it sail past last night even though the sky was covered in light cloud - made a pair of passing dog-walkers stop and point upwards.

Chris

[cotterless45 11,818]

Certainly a thrilling sight. Hope some youngsters can get a look,

Nick.

[Grotemobile 964]

Saw it the other night with, Mars,Saturn,

& the Moon, all together.Full house,that

night.

Steve

Edited August 8, 2014 by Grotemobile

[ronl 942]

It looked  very bright last night, not long after sunset, I always wave,

even my wife gave them a wave too, it's a great sight to see, I get all

the times for the ISS from Flo's weather forecast for my location.

[andrew65 99]

Just watched it go over with another object following behind I'm assuming this was a supply rocket

[Wikiastro 76]

I was playing taking some widefield shots with my Sony A230 DSLR and had a minutes warning, so snapped this 10 second exposure of the midnight pass on Wed/Thurs

[PortugueseGazer 7]

Guys two questions, Is it possible for me to see more than a brilliant Dot with my 12x50 Binoculars? How can i know when it passes through Portugal?

Thanks in Advance!

[Wikiastro 76]

If you've got an iPhone or iPad there's an app called goisswatch that tells you when a pass will occur and it's path through the sky. It'll alert you when too. My wife gets an email from spotthestation at NASA. Not sure how she signed up tho.

[PortugueseGazer 7]

Lucky wife it seems! Unlucky me i guess :/

I don't have either an iphone or ipad. I have a Nokia Lumia 520 :/

I'll try to find another way

Thank you Mate

[Wikiastro 76]

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov

[Wikiastro 76]

That's the site. Sign up there for free email alerts.

[Grotemobile 964]

Very good.Thanks for that.

Steve

[andrew65 99]

If you got a smart phone go to play store and get iss detector it work really well.

[PorkyB 261]

I even managed to get Mrs PorkyB to come out and have a look.  We waved and shouted hello, seems rude not to really.

Of course, if you take a 200P and 3 barlow out with you, you can do this...

International Space Station by porkyb, on Flickr

[Astro Imp 3,596]

Just watched it go over with another object following behind I'm assuming this was a supply rocket

Just watched the pass to-night and also saw another fainter object tracking about 2 degrees(bit of a guess, but looked about 4 moon diameters) lower down and assumed the same thing. Anyone confirm?

[PortugueseGazer 7]

I even managed to get Mrs PorkyB to come out and have a look.  We waved and shouted hello, seems rude not to really.

Of course, if you take a 200P and 3 barlow out with you, you can do this...

International Space Station by porkyb, on Flickr

You sir, are a very lucky man...

[Mukv 138]

same here saw a second object on same trajectory as ISS easy seeing tonight despite bright moon.

Andy

[PorkyB 261]

The other object is ATV5.  I'll grab the bins and have a look if the clouds clear.  It should be visible tomorrow (Monday 11th) as well. 

[Mukv 138]

found this information about current opperations of iss

http://blogs.esa.int/atv/2014/08/07/atv-5-ready-for-iss-fly-under/

worth looking for tonight.

Andy

[cantab 184]

Spotted the ISS and ATV-5 last night, the ATV was about 15 degrees ahead. Just missed the earlier pass tonight - I ended up checking Heavens Above right as the ISS pass was happening and rushed out in my slippers but didn't see it. Will try for the ~23:10 pass, when the ATV is expected to be behind again.

[stevend 229]

Spotted the ISS and ATV 5 on tonight's 2134 pass. ATV 5 is a couple of minutes behind the ISS on the same trajectory just a tad dimmer but easily spotted with the naked eye.

Edited August 11, 2014 by stevend

[Mukv 138]

I saw the 21:32 pass and now I'm setting up my camera with sigma 50-500 and 2X teleconverter 1000mm lens configuration the 5Dmk2 will be at iso 25600 (very noisy) but at f13 and .125 exposure on a Benbo trekker tripod will be good for a laugh! I love this sport!

Andy

[stevend 229]

Just seen the second pass and ATV 5 is definitely closer to the ISS this time, as the ISS left my view ATV 5 appeared.