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Post  NotBert Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:38 am

The ISS is passing over and visible several times each evening this week (clear skies permitting)

http://iss.astroviewer.net/index.php

Click on "observation" and put your town name in. It always seems to me to be spectacularly quiet when it passes over, all of us just specks in an incomprehensible infinity. I never tire of it.
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Post  Guest Sun Jun 01, 2014 2:58 am

Excellent

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Post  Guest Sun Jun 01, 2014 11:45 pm

Visible from UK in 12 minutes (11.56pm)

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Post  Guest Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:05 am

Just come in from the garden.....it was magnificent.
Very, very bright.
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Post  NotBert Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:14 am

It's amazing, isn't it, Tone?  Cloudy and drizzle here so we're likely to be fucked for the night, the 11.56 one was for sure as I was getting water from outside (bottled in the garage, not stand pipe in the road)
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Post  Guest Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:23 am

Very clear night here in Clacton ....sky full of stars and we have the added bonus of no light pollution where we are.
Even the wife enjoyed it.....and nothing gets her excited.
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Post  NotBert Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:28 am

The kids stayed up for the post-midnight pass yesterday and the 02.19 pass was just me on my own stood in the middle of the road tracking it the full length. We are unfortunately well light-polluted but it's amazing. For six minutes or so the rest of the world just melted away.
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Post  NotBert Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:30 am

And half an hour or so on, there'll be people having the same conversation in East Timor
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Post  NotBert Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:30 am

UK to Australia in 35 minutes...
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Post  NotBert Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:28 pm

First clear night in a week, just watched the 10.15 pass which was surprisingly bright despite the lower magnitude as it wasn't vying with stars and so forth for visibility.  Next one at 11.51, Cornwall "landfall" and straight overhead for Tony... Very Happy
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Post  NotBert Thu Jun 05, 2014 10:32 pm

Next one and after that, another long pass at 1:28am if still up, both of a pretty decent (-2.9, -2.8 ) magnitude

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Post  NotBert Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:14 am

Amazing pass, rising to the left of the moon, clear sky, progressively brighter and positively gleaming as it passed overhead, the full six and a half minutes or so, magical.
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Post  Guest Fri Jun 06, 2014 1:05 pm

Missed 'em.
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Post  NotBert Fri Jun 06, 2014 8:44 pm

We're still getting around five a night if the sky's clear, Tone. No chance here tonight, sadly
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Post  Guest Fri Jun 06, 2014 10:39 pm

Nor here.
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Post  NotBert Sat Jun 07, 2014 11:12 pm

Thunder cleared up for us earlier, let me see the fair pass at 10.14. Brightest at 11.50 if it stays clear
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Post  Guest Sun Jun 08, 2014 11:24 pm

Passed over here 15 minutes ago....From the west.
Beautiful clear night.
Best view yet.

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Post  NotBert Mon Jun 09, 2014 1:52 am

Excellent, Tone. Did see the later pass last night, pretty bright considering we has found ourselves some cloud to the SW and low level mist. Haven't had a chance to look tonight as I've been doing my own Crohn's orbits at twenty minute intervals, which fortunately has been a rarer event recently...
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Post  NotBert Fri Jun 13, 2014 6:56 pm

Good pass last night. A bit further south, it seems we're approaching the end of this spell of visibility
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Post  Guest Fri Jun 13, 2014 8:11 pm

Yep, we caught that one too last night.

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Post  NotBert Sun Jun 15, 2014 10:31 pm

Down to one pass a night or less until Thursday and then a fallow spell. Last real view of any substantial magnitude is Tuesday at 22.07. Let's get on it, people, pray for clear skies
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Post  NotBert Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:08 pm

Four minute pass tonight at 10.56, just before Ghana play the Septics. Clear skies, will be watching
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Post  NotBert Thu Aug 07, 2014 10:09 pm

Stellar pass for Londoners at 11.11 tonight. Right overhead
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Post  Guest Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:32 am

Missed it.
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Post  NotBert Fri Aug 08, 2014 12:58 am

Good run ongoing for the south, Tone - 10.22 Friday and 11.10 Saturday look stellar too - the Saturday one the brighter and will wink out overhead (amusingly, near Ostend), which is less common and a fascinating sight. 10.21 on Sunday and 9.32 Monday mirrors the 11.11 one tonight too.
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