Spot the Space Station

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Something a little different...

https://gizmodo.com/keeping-voyager...s-the-iconic-mission-nears-its-end-2000580634

 

[day_trippr]

Kind of a messed up chart but I guess some folks may be able to see northern lights tonight...

This map had more thought (and data?) put into it...

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw...

 

[day_trippr]

Taken last night by a "Benjamin Skoog" at Mount Wachusetts about 20 minutes from me.
He said he could not see it without using the camera...

Cheers!

 

[day_trippr]

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[balrog]

M-kay.
I was waiting for the dot to start moving around like @passedpawn 's screen-destroying spider GIF that time.

 

[day_trippr]

Sorry, there was a video on FB taken of the same shot but it had a "no embed" tag and I couldn't find it elsewhere.
You can see it here though...

 

[balrog]

Imma just drop this here. Sometimes, you have to surrender to the magnanimity of the universe.

 

[passedpawn]

Imma just drop this here. Sometimes, you have to surrender to the magnanimity of the universe.

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That's nuts. Looks like the sky is full of diamonds there. But "magnanimity"...

But yea. There is a term in astronomy called the Bortle Scale. It indicates how bright the local light interference is. Because of the way our eyes slowly adapt to light, and similarly the way astrophotography equipment works, low bortle is awesome. You can imagine the places that have very low bortle. Scale is 1-9

I've been in low bortle skies, and you can easily see the milky way smearing the night sky (with milk... the reason the milky way is called that is a mythological story about zeus ripping baby hercules from Athena's b00by and milk flying out and staining the sky LOL. That's from memory, check my math). BTW, the greek word for milk is galaxy or something like that.

 

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you can easily see the milky way

I've seen it a few times too, it's unbelievable. Fishing in Florida just past the Everglades, and camping "up north" in MN. Nothing like another planet, but stupid dark. Milky way was easy to find, satellites, you name it. Some constellations actually got tougher on account of so many more visible stars than normal.

Craziest night ever was camping under the northern lights, they were multicolored and were so bright they left shadows.

 

[Rish]

Watched the Falcon 9 Bandwagon 3 launch from my aunt's front yard about an hour ago. I suck at making videos on this phone so I don't have any to share but it was cool to see and hear.

 

[day_trippr]

The known universe is hella big...

 

[balrog]

That's nuts. Looks like the sky is full of diamonds there. But "magnanimity"...
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But yea. There is a term in astronomy called the Bortle Scale. It indicates how bright the local light interference is. Because of the way our eyes slowly adapt to light, and similarly the way astrophotography equipment works, low bortle is awesome. You can imagine the places that have very low bortle. Scale is 1-9

I've been in low bortle skies, and you can easily see the milky way smearing the night sky (with milk... the reason the milky way is called that is a mythological story about zeus ripping baby hercules from Athena's b00by and milk flying out and staining the sky LOL. That's from memory, check my math). BTW, the greek word for milk is galaxy or something like that.

I found the picture of a sky "generously" bespeckled with stars. Ok that was a reach.

 

[day_trippr]

This is cool!

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

This is cool!

A half ton? I wouldn't want that falling on my house!

 

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I'm curious to find a legit (not that she's wrong but something I can more easily look up and follow) source on it? A site I can visit occasionally for updates if anyone has one. I'm not worried just agreeing it's certainly very interesting.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I'm curious to find a legit (not that she's wrong but something I can more easily look up and follow) source on it? A site I can visit occasionally for updates if anyone has one. I'm not worried just agreeing it's certainly very interesting.

This site seems ok if you can put up with all the ads. It's sad trying to find a good site. We could be a burning planet before finding something.

https://www.n2yo.com/?s=6073&live=1

 

[day_trippr]

I always thought the perchlorates would be a show stopper wrt Mars colonization, turns out that's just one of many problems...

https://glassalmanac.com/study-suggests-mars-colonization-may-be-impossible/

 

[MaxStout]

This site seems ok if you can put up with all the ads. It's sad trying to find a good site. We could be a burning planet before finding something.

https://www.n2yo.com/?s=6073&live=1

I got up this morning, expecting to see that the probe had crashed. Nope. Still orbiting, though its perigee was down to around 84 miles. That has to be skimming the atmosphere.

I don't get ads on that site. Adblocker must be working.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I always thought the perchlorates would be a show stopper wrt Mars colonization, turns out that's just one of many problems...

https://glassalmanac.com/study-suggests-mars-colonization-may-be-impossible/

Colonization of any planet is a lofty goal that in theory seems doable. Getting the Starship capable is just one hurdle that needs to be worked out. But, we have to start somewhere.

 

[balrog]

Hate to be “that guy”, but do we?

Explore, learn, I’m all for it. Colonize for the sake of ??? I’m not so sure.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Don't forget to take your umbrella if you're heading out. Something hard and Russian is coming down

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1920838678303162675?t=T3EajveDMvS8D8rLm47jXQ&s=19

 

[Beekeeper]

Still orbiting, though its perigee was down to around 84 miles. That has to be skimming the atmosphere.

80.71 miles at 4pm Eastern.

 

[day_trippr]

https://blogs.esa.int/rocketscience...venera-venus-lander-cosmos-482-descent-craft/

Status 09 May 19:15 CEST
ESA’s Space Debris Office currently predicts that the reentry of the descent craft will take place at:
06:37 UTC (08:37 CEST) on 10 May 2025 [1:37 AM EST tomorrow]
The uncertainty in this prediction is now +/- 3.28 hours.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

I saw somewhere that it looks like the parachutes were deployed. I wonder if that was twenty years ago? That adds a lot of uncertainty when those decide to hold on for their last breath.

 

[day_trippr]

I had read that the chutes were deployed as well. But exposure to unfiltered sunlight (all of the UV spectrum!) must ravage the heck out of textiles, I can't imagine they'd have any effectivity left to give if they've been deployed for a lengthy duration...

Cheers!

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

It's doing the slow bouncy thing off the atmosphere for 20 years so it's gonna drag. Not a direct ascent. Who knows? It'll fun to track.

Titanium must make a beautiful color when it starts to burn

 

[Beekeeper]

Titanium must make a beautiful color when it starts to burn

Apparently...titanium can turn silver-white at 200°C, light yellow at 300°C, and blue at 500°C.

 

[balrog]

Welp, it didn't come down in my back yard. Unless I'm dead and this is some nascent/residual consciousness thinking it's typing on HBT.

https://apnews.com/article/soviet-venus-spacecraft-kosmos-482-93871c98ca9c09a67219e238ed3e2eaa

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

Welp, it didn't come down in my back yard. Unless I'm dead and this is some nascent/residual consciousness thinking it's typing on HBT.

https://apnews.com/article/soviet-venus-spacecraft-kosmos-482-93871c98ca9c09a67219e238ed3e2eaa

Sun came up over here in Wisconsin and I can smell coffee brewing. I guess that could be heaven too.

Strange they don't know where it landed, per the article. Makes me wonder how reliable is our radar or perhaps they don't want people to know?

 

[day_trippr]

I agree, you'd think with all the warning and time there'd be no way the thing could sneak by

Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. Kosmos 482 appears to have fallen harmlessly into the sea.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

I agree, you'd think with all the warning and time there'd be no way the thing could sneak by

Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. Kosmos 482 appears to have fallen harmlessly into the sea.

Wow, this morning I read it fell in Germany but then again yesterday I read it could be London. Probably more fake news.

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

For the most part even when they do a controlled reentry of a spent satellite they don't know when or where it will land.

 

[OakIslandBrewery]

For the most part even when they do a controlled reentry of a spent satellite they don't know when or where it will land.

Wouldn't the term "controlled" mean there's enough fuel to bring it back?

 

[Broken Crow]

I agree, you'd think with all the warning and time there'd be no way the thing could sneak by

Reentry occurred at 2:24 a.m. ET (0624 GMT or 9:24 a.m. Moscow time) over the Indian Ocean west of Jakarta, Indonesia, according to Russia's space agency Roscosmos. Kosmos 482 appears to have fallen harmlessly into the sea.

Yup...Jakarta... Here's some officials talking about it;

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Wouldn't the term "controlled" mean there's enough fuel to bring it back?

Yup. We ain't China or Russia . I think even when they have enough fuel to bring to a most probable safe the thing has like half the earth of probability. So point it to the ocean

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Hope he wore sunscreen

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tory...4DxfsY0DQvs_ISYo4fbqHc&utm_campaign=copy_link

 

[Pkrd]

 

[Pkrd]

Alien life probably sucks at making beer.
https://www.astronomy.com/science/k...-sulfide-in-its-air-but-is-it-a-sign-of-life/

 

[day_trippr]

Looks like NASA's new "austerity program" is taking its toll...

https://nasawatch.com/iss-news/nasa-is-removing-space-station-sighting-website-info/