Discovery & International Space Station

No I've never been lucky enough.

Me neither.

Trouble is....clear skies means a cold night & I'm desperately waiting for the morning glories to open & tomatoes to finish ripening!
It was really cold this morning & someone even mentioned frosts!!! Aaargh!

I could'nt see them Fluff, too many tree's and too much light from our house but my daughter has got a picture of either the shuttle or ISS.

We can see the ISS most of the time at night, or my mate is daft and thinks a star is it. Lol :~))

Ian the way you can tell it's the ISS is that it does'nt twinkle or flash and it moves very steadily across the sky, and stars don't move.
Or there again it could be Indypendant's spaceship :o)))

Lol Bob, :~))

Normally it sits just under the moon like a bright star but the one picture I took recently and uploaded here was nt under the moon and very large indeed to big for any star.My picture was taken with a phone camera

Missed it!! As usual, I was doing the ironing, instead of gazing at the sky....:((

Oh Di trust you :o)))

Lol, I know Bob...but them shirts don't iron themselves....:))

Hmmmm now theres a thing .... self ironing shirts .... I would make a fortune .... Nah you women love ironing it's a non starter :o))))

Ha ha Bob :)) I've just got a new "state of the art" iron (I know, I know, I'm sooooo lucky.....) and one of it's many functions is a "vertical ironing feature" (I kid you not...!) Anyway, it means you just hang the shirt or whatever on a hanger, and blast it with the iron (hours of fun...). But I had to laugh, when reading through the destructions (I'm a woman, so I read them, lol) and it said...."CAUTION! DO NOT IRON WHILST WEARING THE GARMENT...." Oooo I was so tempted.....lol :))

O.M.G. thats almost as bad as getting a jar of peanut butter and the label saying 'Caution may contain nuts' :o))))

Don't look up at night ! how can I test it if you're all out ogling ? As to you lot getting off planet (hahahahaaa!) they really fooled you didnt they (and 2001 a space odysey was real too eh!) what youre looking at are my drone satellites, which give me the needed co-ordinates to launch my test runs with!
Watch this space, not that one!

LOL !!

Actually Indy....one of them was a bit wobbly...like the pilot has had one too many!! Thought they might have something to do with you! One of them had even left it's indicator on from when it turned right past the moon!!

Hey Bob...my hubby won't let me do the ironing...he's ex-navy & thinks women are c**p at it...I don't argue funnily enough!

Just going to look at pics of ISS....

As I'm the only one UP there it doesnt matter too much if the indicators left on. The "wobble " you percieve is actually a distortion of the light spectrum caused by huge acceleration forces when the laughter drive kicks in, don't worry too much about it , it's relatively harmless to offworlders....ok you can worry a bit if that doesn't include you, but hey youre only gonna laugh till your sides hurt anyway so what the hey!

You're NOT the only one uo there Indy...unless you've bumped off the Man in the Monn? Don't think even you would be that cruel...HE would never allow inappropriate indicating so maybe you have...and...you ain't seen me - right?

Seen who?

Lieutenant Uhura honey...

Nope not seen her!, but will ask around and see if she's available for you if you want her!

Nah...s'pect Kirk's already made her acquaintance! She said she fancied you tho...impressed by your drone satellites!

All the ladies are impressed by my drones Fluff, once theyve had a glimpse of them that is!

I bet Indy...I bet! Glad to hear you don't flash them about for all & sundry!

I haven't seen the ISS with the shuttle docked to it yet (not many opportunities left!) but I have seen the the ISS pass over head on several occasions. May here in the UK is one of the bast months of the year to see it.

I get info on when to see it from this site:

http://www.heavens-above.com/

You just put in your town & country & it will find the times of when the ISS, or other things like satellites are visible from your place up to 10 days in advance.

One of the best moments this year came on my birthday in May!!! I was able to see it & I describe it on a forum I post on frequently. If you would like to read about it, here is the page address:

http://beyondspace.info/forum/index.php?topic=1695.0

Scroll down to reply #20.

Another post can be found here:

http://beyondspace.info/forum/index.php?topic=607.30

Scroll down to reply #54

The maps on both pages are wrong, they are not the ones I originally put up! Those were of where I live in the UK - not the Black Sea!!!

Thanks for that Balcony...I'll have a look.

I've seen the ISS twice....just amazing stuff. I'm told it moves at a constant 14,000 miles per hour and is several miles above the earth's surface..........

Word to the wise - if it's not moving.....it's a star.

That's why it was so easy to spot & follow Sid...the night sky was awash with stars but this baby was zooming across the sky...just brill!

Yeah, really bright isn't it :-)