24 May 2010

drone-happy opacity-inclined

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Amazing.
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4 comments:

  1. Here you go - get your binoculars...

    http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=36514&lat=38.582&lng=-121.493&loc=Sacramento&alt=0&tz=PST


    That schedule is from my coordinates.

    If the link doesn't work (I log in automatically), or to enter your own coordinates go to

    http://www.heavens-above.com and enter your coordinates.

    You can also track the International Space Station (ISS), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Shuttle missions there as well as planets etc.

    The magnitude (MAG) column tells you the brightness. The higher the number the dimmer the object.

    This is a measure of the brightness of a celestial object. The lower the value, the brighter the object, so magnitude -4 is brighter than magnitude 0, which is in turn brighter than magnitude +4. The scale is logarithmic, and a difference of 5 magnitudes means a brightness difference of exactly 100 times. A difference of one magnitude corresponds to a brightness difference of around 2.51 (the fifth root of 100).

    The brightest star - Sirius - is -1.44.

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  2. I'm going to go out on a limb here and postulate that the curator of that museum is heterosexual.....

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  3. Bluebear thanks for the link. I thought I saw this the other morning around 4AM but what I saw was going the other way in an opposite orbit. It wasn’t the normal north/south path.
    jo6pac

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