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Re: [LUG] OT: Spot the Space Station

 
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Cool I use heavens above, btw if you see the spacestation being
followed by another object it could be the ATV which is the supply
craft thing they send up to the space station. Not sure if they are
still using it, but we did see that once,

stellarium is also a good package as that allows you to view the solar
system from different places so see what earth looks like from Mars, or
What Pluto looks like from Neptune.

Paul
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Wow, Stellarium is great. Loving that app! When I searched Play Store for heavens above, I get Star Track and Heavens Above Me as the first two results. Heavens Above Me seems to offer nothing more than Stellarium, so will just stick with that. But, Star Track has great sattalite tracking functionality.
Thanks for the tip.
Mike.

paul sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 27/11/12 11:16, Roland Tarver wrote:
On 27/11/12 06:59, Henry Bremridge wrote:
I came across the following website

http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/

and the associated
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/index.html

When walking the dogs, it is great to see the space station going
overhead



cool, thanks Henry. What did the dogs make of it? ;-)
roly



Cool I use heavens above,  btw if you see the spacestation
being
followed by another object it could be the ATV  which is the supply
craft thing they send up to the space station.  Not sure if they are
still using it, but we did see that once,   

stellarium is also a good package as that allows you to view the solar
system from different places so see what earth looks like from Mars,  or
What Pluto looks like from Neptune.

Paul
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