Space Centre sightings!

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Anyone see it?

Ds and I went down to the bottom of the garden, beautiful clear night and saw it go over for about a minute. Very exciting. Is the shuttle tomorrow but don't know what the weather is like

find your nearest big town \linkspaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/region.cgi?country=United_Kingdom&region =England\Here} for info and times tc

oops Here

cool but we've missed it for tonight !

Did anyone see the moon last night - a huge dark red crescent!

again tommorrow though whizzz and for longer!

have printed out the page for tomorrow - it shoudl still be clear hopefully.

NASA TV is good too - you can see what they are up to up there!

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Thanks for the link!

We will be looking out at 6.00 tonight

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We'll be out looking too.
Also, did you see in the newspaper, they are going to throw some paper aeroplanes out to see where (if) they land. I cut it out for DS, and he is just desperate to find one.

We'll be out looking too.
Also, did you see in the newspaper, they are going to throw some paper aeroplanes out to see where (if) they land. I cut it out for DS, and he is just desperate to find one.

We'll be out looking too.
Also, did you see in the newspaper, they are going to throw some paper aeroplanes out to see where (if) they land. I cut it out for DS, and he is just desperate to find one.

bump for space watchers

More info on what to look for:-
Appearing as a pair of very "bright 'stars," the ISS should appear as the somewhat brighter object and will appear to be leading Shuttle Atlantis as they move across
the sky. A large telescope would be needed to make out details of the sprawling station. Traveling in their respective orbits at approximately 18,000 mph (29,000 kilometers per hour), both should be visible from about one to four minutes (depending on the particular viewing pass) as they glide with a steady speed across the sky.

Because of its size and configuration of highly reflective solar panels, the Space Station is now, by far, the brightest man-made object currently in orbit around the Earth.

yay we saw it thanks for pointing it out!

We've just looked out but didn't see anything. Quite cloudy though

We saw it ! A very bright dot seemed to be moving fairly slowly really. Bang on time too !

we saw it too! A bright star/dot, i thought it moved fairly quickly - faster than a plane at night lol!

literally JUST missed todays time! Will look tomo....have set an alarm

TY for this!

altho, how do you know where to look? what does it all mean??

It gives you the direction to look with the times. If you haven't got a compass you can work it out from where the sun rises (east)/sets (west)

ooh how exciting - DS1 will love this - will report back if we spot anything!!!!

Thanks.

hunofmonster - theres another along in just under an hour!!!! but only for 1 min -

bump for tonights space watchers

dd and ds think they saw it last night , seems cloudier today.

It was too cloudy here tonight - but did see it twice yesterday

We were planning to watch tonight but ended up bathing dd's so no chance! will have to try again tomorrow.
Here is another link for those interested in all things spacey:
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