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Old 10-08-2013, 07:49 PM
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Just saw the ISS do a flyby almost directly overhead. It was visible for about 5 minutes from Southwest to Northeast.
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Old 10-08-2013, 08:11 PM
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Me too. 'twas cool.
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Old 10-08-2013, 08:23 PM
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Watched it with my son. May have contracted West Nile in the process. Skeeters are baaaaad!!!
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Saw that a couple months ago its a pretty neat sight, would be pretty cool to watch with a telescope. Moon is looking nice tonight too.
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Saw that a couple months ago its a pretty neat sight, would be pretty cool to watch with a telescope. Moon is looking nice tonight too.
I wish my telescope could track that fast. It will track the moon but that's as fast as it goes.
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Old 10-09-2013, 06:35 AM
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Saw that a couple months ago its a pretty neat sight, would be pretty cool to watch with a telescope. Moon is looking nice tonight too.

Not going to happen, you can sometimes see it pretty good with a good pair of Binoculars.

I have an app on my phone that sends an alarm 5 minutes before it passes, then when you go outside you look at your phone and it has an arrow to point where to look. Called ISS Detector, I have another app called Droid Sky View, you can do a search and it will point to constellations. You can also point it a star and it will tell you what star it is.

Last night you could see Venus, Mercury and Mars. They were all in one area.
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Old 10-09-2013, 07:30 AM
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I saw it fly over head about a month ago while I was offshore. Was a pretty cool thing to see.
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Yall drinkin too much shine . . .lol
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Here is a very detailed picture of the station when it was passing last night!.....






















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Yall drinkin too much shine . . .lol

More like too many diet cokes lol


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Does it fly over again tonight
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Saw it fly a few times out in the Mediterranean and the North Arabian Sea. No lights at all out there. Wish I could have had my phone on the flight deck but that's a big no no at night especially during night ops.

Really cool sight when you get to see it against a pitch black sky.
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