[FairfieldLife] Re: Earth at night from the International Space Station

[Susan]

I will check on the iridium flares - looks amazing.   I have seen the space 
station pass overhead many times, but only because I had the schedule for my 
area and was looking for it.  Go to: www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.  You 
need to enter your location and time zone.  It will give you  dates and times 
and locations (which area of the sky it will appear in and what direction it 
will be traveling).  It is very accurate.

Thanks for the info on the flares.  I am passing it around.......

--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Emily Reyn <emilymae.reyn@...> wrote:
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> Susan:  Are you talking about or have you seen an iridium flare?  One has 
> to be watching at the exact time, but they are very cool.  There was a 
> schedule for the flares at the star party I attended this year and we saw 
> several; one doesn't need a telescope to see them.  
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_flare
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> The lower the "magnitude" number, the brighter the flare.  
> 
> http://www.wikihow.com/Find-an-Iridium-Flare
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> http://www.heavens-above.com/iridium.asp?Dur=1&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=CET
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> ________________________________
>  From: Susan <wayback71@...>
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:44 PM
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Earth at night from the International Space 
> Station
>  
> 
>   
> 
> You cans see the space station from earth by getting the time of its travel 
> over where you live nearly each evening.  I will get the link and post it 
> tomorrow morning. It looks like a bright, large star that moves fairly 
> quickly, bigger and brighter than the satelites you can see in the hight sky. 
>  Amazing.
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophaneros Anartaxius" <anartaxius@> 
> wrote:
> >
> > Earth at night from the International Space Station
> > http://vimeo.com/45878034
> >
>