ISS visible passes - ongoing thread

[Dan D'Air]

managed to catch Falcon / Dragon and all its bits breaking away about 10 mins ago. got a couple of pics but they are not great.

You may have answered my question.
I saw the ISS last night and behind it, by about a minute, was another "illumination", on exactly the same track and disappeared at the same place as ISS.
Is falcon the supply ship?
I'll be chuffed if it was and will it be visible tonight?

[Gary]

Dan

Dragon was birthed / docked with ISS early afternoon unfortunately

[EGDR]

managed to catch Falcon / Dragon and all its bits breaking away about 10 mins ago. got a couple of pics but they are not great.

You may have answered my question.
I saw the ISS last night and behind it, by about a minute, was another "illumination", on exactly the same track and disappeared at the same place as ISS.
Is falcon the supply ship?
I'll be chuffed if it was and will it be visible tonight?

That'll be it, but it was Dragon, Falcon is the rocket it was launched on

As Gary said, it has now docked with the ISS

[Gary]

Short notice but their is a ARISS with ISS currently on 145.8000

A contact is scheduled for Sat 05-02-2015 with Sol Plaatje Primary School, Mahikeng, South Africa, and Scuola Secondaria di I Grado, Caprino Bergamasco, Italy, by telebridge via IK1SLD. The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IRØISS, and the scheduled astronaut is Samantha Cristoforetti, IZØUDF. 16:41:27 Contact is currently set for UTC 64 deg.

http://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html

[Gary]

10.53l ISS comms on 145.800, sounds like another ARISS, shame it's in Italian

A contact is scheduled for Sat 2015-05-09 09:52:06 UTC 27 deg with Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale “Enrico Fermi,” Lucca, Italy, direct via IQ5LU, and with Studi di Firenze – Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy, direct via IQ5PO The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be IRØISS. The scheduled astronaut is Samantha Cristoforetti IZØUDF.

[Gary]

ISS currently visible in the evening 8 mins until the next pass (22.38)

[Gary]

ISS currently going over France at 12.55 and comms are booming through on 143.625 shame their speaking Russia again

I managed to record some comms https://soundcloud.com/trampslikeus1978 ... -27-6-2015

[Gary]

ISS currently doing some night passes. Next one at 10.24

[Davieboy106]

passed direct overhead last night around 9pm. Mate didn't believe me it was the ISS. Showed him the tracker and then thought wow I've just seen something pass over my head doing 17,000mph and quite a few miles above his head.

[Gary]

ISS back for some night passes, just been over the UK but unfortunately was cloudy here

[H.A.Bucken]

Just had a look at NASA-SpotTheStation on another tab for times. Some of the passes are quite high up during the next week. Never saw any aurora last night.

[C24]

Excellent view over Rutland Water 2015 ish last night. Due again tonight

[Dan D'Air]

ISS overhead Southern GB 17.12 to 17.18 hrs tonight. (tracking West to East) . Just about the time of the docking.
If it is a clear sky, we may see supply module just behind the ISS.

Come on Tim. (It's been a while since I shouted that!)

[Gary]

Don't look like South Lincs will be that lucky Might man the scanner, to see if any comms can be heard http://www.zarya.info/Frequencies/FrequenciesISS.php & http://www.issfanclub.com/frequencies

[Gary]

Had some potential hits on 121.750 during the pass that just happened, didn't hear any comms just static

[Skymaster]

A couple of nights ago, I stepped outside the back door to spot a RAF Herc heading for Brize, but accidentaly spotted ISS instead! It was quite cloudy at the time, and I thought briefly that it was a star... until it appeared in another gap and I realised that it was moving. It's been a long time since I've actually looked for it.

Not much chance of seeing if from here tonight, though, as the weather's awful... and unlikely to be much better for some time, given the forecast.

It'd be nice to spot the Soyuz. I've seen Space Shuttles chasing ISS a couple of times, prior to docking.

[Gary]

Very faint comms on 121.750

[hregor]

NASA HDEV

Not sure if this link has been posted before, or if this is the place to post it.

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/hdev/

Instead of looking up you can look down.

[beefsteak]

A few evening passes over the next few days ladies and gents.

[beefsteak]

And more passes over the next few days.