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  • CHCRandy

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    Did any of you happen to watch the ISS pass over a few minutes ago? Did you see an orange ball that faded out? I have never seen anything like that. I was sitting on porch watching for ISS to come from W-SW headed to NE when the wife says that must be it. I look East to see a huge orange ball that must have been moving Mach 2-3-4....it was fast. It was headed towards the oncoming ISS then it started flaming out and disappeared.

    I still can't believe my eyes. Hoping someone else seen it and maybe got footage. Kind of strange........
     

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    I missed it. But its a cool sight to see. And amazing to realize just how freakin fast the damn thing is moving.
     

    4651feeder

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    how can you tell the speed without knowing the altitude? :dunno: :):

    That's eazy, you take the the angle of declination divided by the coefficient of the rate multiplied by the inverse of the .....oh, never mind I was never any good at that anyways. In the end, I came up with 17,135 mph at 226 miles of altitude, was I in the ballpark?

    While entertaining myself with the Amazon Firestick yesterday, I stumbled across a live Youtube feed from ISS and then found myself simultaneously tracking the path from one of the many internet sites on my notebook. It was almost like handing a baby the pacifier.
     
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    I saw one of the shuttles re-enter earths atmosphere one morning while on the way to work. There was literally a trail of fire in the sky from the west horizon over halfway across the sky towards the east horizon. You could see the point of origin moving towards the east very obviously. The neat thing about it is that it wasn't like a meteorite trail that is relatively short, this stretched clear across the sky and remained visible for several minutes. I didn't have any idea what it was and surprisingly found only one other person that had seen it, we learned a couple of days later that the shuttle had returned from a mission that morning so put two and two together and decided it HAD to be aliens!:rockwoot:
     

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    One of the best opportunities to see the ISS will be tonight at 9:47. It will be moving from southwest to northeast and fly almost directly overhead. It should be visible for about 6 minutes. This will be the best chance to see it for a couple of weeks.
     

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    We went out to see it last night but must have missed it somehow. We'll try again tonight. We always wave when it goes overhead. I might take our 2yr old out so he can blow it a kiss like he does to airplanes.

    Jason
     

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    how can you tell the speed without knowing the altitude? :dunno:

    :):

    Easy. Low earth orbit is about 250 miles for that beast. Knowing where it sits gives me a good starting point. Plus understanding that if its not going something like 15,000mph at that altitude it will fall out of the sky.

    C'mon doc, its not rocket science.





    Oh, wait. Yes it is.

    :):
     

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    I saw one of the shuttles re-enter earths atmosphere one morning while on the way to work. There was literally a trail of fire in the sky from the west horizon over halfway across the sky towards the east horizon. You could see the point of origin moving towards the east very obviously. The neat thing about it is that it wasn't like a meteorite trail that is relatively short, this stretched clear across the sky and remained visible for several minutes. I didn't have any idea what it was and surprisingly found only one other person that had seen it, we learned a couple of days later that the shuttle had returned from a mission that morning so put two and two together and decided it HAD to be aliens!:rockwoot:

    I saw the same thing in the mid 90's while stationed at Ft Hood, TX. Scared the hell out of me, I had no idea what I was looking at and the first thought that came to mind was "ICBM".
     

    CHCRandy

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    This is just like what I saw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ldrPeXFDv8 Kind of odd how many reports there are of seeing these things at same time as ISS.......but all over the world and all different years. I have always been skeptical of UFO's and such, but this was something strange. I dont think it was a meteor. I based speed on time it took to cross sky compared to ISS and planes I was watching in sky as well.

    Oh well.....when you get abducted by little green guys, don't say I didnt try to warn ya.
     

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    Go to the NASA website and you can sign up for "Spot the Station". You will get an email every time it is visible from your zip code. Looks like a bright star but moving very fast. 6 minutes is the longest it has ever been visible because that's how long it takes to go from horizon to horizon.
     

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    Just watched it fly over here along the Ohio river. Great view from tree line to the southwest, to the trees just northeast of the house. Beautiful night! Dogs were a little confused, we have to leave them inside so as not to set off the motion lights on the garage.
     

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