drt on Jan 14 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
Last night I set my alarm clock and was able to wake up at 5:40AM this morning. There were an Iridium Flare of Iridium 26 at 05:54:57 and ISS passing around 06:00:00. The sky was cloudy but I thought I would be able to see the passing of ISS since I saw few stars and the crescent moon. I gave [...]
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drt on Jan 14 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
I remember that few years ago, the Sky & Telescope site provided some ‘How To’ articles and I think I put few links in my personal page at that time. When I started to repair the clean up the links, the Sky & Telescopes links were among the broken links that need to be repaired. [...]
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drt on Jan 10 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
Well, I was once a child too. But kidding aside, I thought, children need more helps in getting them to be aware of the passing of a satellite and observing those satellites passing through the night sky in their backyards.
To these days, I still vividly remember when my grandma pointing to the propeller airplane passing [...]
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drt on Jan 10 2007 | Filed under: Satellite Tracking
I’m still thinking that there should be a simple way to tell the grandpa or grandma on how to show their grand children the passing of ISS or other satellites across an early morning or evening sky. For example, we may offer them some basic info like ”When Are Satellites Visible?” etc., that was covered in Jeff’s introduction and part of it is quoted below:
Whether or [...]
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