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Heres a link to a useful calculator for finding where all sorts of space metal is where and when.
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/SSapplications/Post/JavaSSOP/JavaSSOP.html

 

Thank you Capney Although, I have to say the sky is very overcast after a lot of heavy rain down here in Devon today, so I don't think I'll be seeing much of anything - I hope you manage to get some more great photos!

Kath.

 

Sad to say there was to much cloud over Yorkshire tonight as well.
30mins ago it was clear and as I look to the west a few miles it is clear again. No pictures possible tonight.
Such is life.....
robert

 

Cookie,
Here is the next 3 days not the best sightings you will get due to the observing angle in the sky (it's quite low down) after that there will be no visible passes then after a 10 day period the sightings move to a morning schedule great for us early risers,it follows this pattern all the time.
SAT. start time -19:19 pm from the west : finish time -19:24 pm in the south east
SUN. " - 20:46 pm from the west : finish time - 20:50 pm in the south south east
MON. " - 20:04 pm west south west:finish time- 20:08 pm in the south south east

If you are interested would like to know when a particularly good sighting is due I will post the times when it's about to happen or any other phenomena.

 

Walnut.
GMT or BST?
robert

 

GMT tonight
BST tomorrow.

 

ISS at 11:15 pm last night unmissable now really bright (unless it's cloudy)

 

Brilliant shot Walnut :gnthb::gnthb:

 

Hi Shiney all in hand not sure yet which ship to go on probably be on the e.s.a. ship booked it last week:thmb:
On August 27, 2003 -- the date of closest approach -- the two worlds will be 243 million km apart. That's a long way by Earth standards, but only a short distance on the scale of the solar system. NASA, the European Space Agency and Japan are all sending spacecraft to Mars this year. It's a good time to go.A lot of rumours abound about the closeness of the two saying that Mars will look as big as a full moon it's not true.
Mars is a morning planet now. You have to wake up early to see it. Soon, though, it will be more conveniently placed. By mid-July Mars will rise in the east around 11 p.m. local time. In late August it will appear as soon as the sun sets. It won't be long before everyone can see Mars at a civilized hour.

 

Thanks Dave managed to anchor the tripod.

 

Had a great view tonight Walnut. Got camera set in advance at optimum angle for az/el took a couple of great pics. Only prob was that I forgot to change the ISO setting from ISO 100 to 400 or 800 with consequence that pics were not great and track hardly shows and tonight's pass (SSE @ 27 degrees) was about the best possible azimuth/elevation for my locality:dh::dh::dh:
Nevertheless had a brilliant eyeball view!

 

What a pity Dave,there's all sorts up there at the moment that tool bag is still floating around that the lady astronaut dropped and can be seen with good bino's and clear skies,the hubble and atlantis likewise,there are 66 iridium communication satellites in operation at any one time orbiting north to south and can be seen with the naked eye sometimes they can give the odd flash in the daytime as they catch the sun.

 

Found this on one of my sites,how cool is it.
SPACESHIPS IN THE SUN: Award winning astrophotographer Thierry Legault wanted to image the Hubble Space Telescope and space shuttle Atlantis traveling together around Earth. But how? The pair wouldn't fly over his hometown in France during the ongoing servicing mission. To catch the rare meeting of spaceships, he decided to do some traveling of his own--all the way to Florida. Yesterday, from a location 100 kilometers south of the Kennedy Space Center, he pointed his telescope at the sun and there they were:
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"I took this picture of Atlantis and HST transiting the sun on May 13th at 12:17 p.m. EDT. It was just before the shuttle reached out with its robotic arm to grapple Hubble," says Legault. "The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds." He captured the split-second transit using a solar-filtered Takahashi 5-inch refracting telescope and a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.

 

This is a video taken on the space shuttle atlantis after the crew spent 5 days reparing the hubble space telescope, here the is the moment the robotic arm is removing the telescope from the cargo bay and releasing it back into space.http://www.universetoday.com/2009/05/19/astronauts-release-hubble-watch-the-video/#more-31058