What's up there??

[MA2 317]

Have you looked up at the sky at night and wonder what's up there?

For those that may have an interest in the objects floating around our planet, there's an app for that.

I have observed the ISS, Tiangong, and the secretive X-37 space plane, along with other things floating around the planet with this app.

ISS Detector | The mobile satellite tracker

You can set alerts on the app and you won't miss a time window of observation.

The Starlink satellites from Space-X we're a treat to see last week.

My wife commented that it looked like Santa Claus and his sleigh of reindeer cruising across the night sky.

Space X has recently launched another batch of 52 starlink satellites into space. (18-Dec-2021).

They are easy to see after a new launch, but as they travel further apart and higher into orbit, they are hard to see.

If you've haven't seen them, it's pretty cool.

 

[norsehabanero]

i have caught the iss with my mini with the 4 sec exposure you can see the movement from the ground with my gopro at 30 sec its a longer line

 

[Crow Horse]

15 years ago while camping under a starlit sky I observed something that our current technologies can't do. I was just looking for shooting stars and satellites and I noticed one that at first I thought was a satellite. Once it began to zig zag across the sky I knew it wasn't one of "ours". Making right angle turns while moving at somewhere around 17,000 mph isn't within our capabilities. I pointed it out to my GF at the time and she confirmed what I was observing. Pretty cool and humbling. We are not alone....

 

[Rchawks]

While camping in the mountains in 1978 we seen the same impossible light show. I told my friends, you know one will believe us if we tell them what we just saw

 

[Crow Horse]

While camping in the mountains in 1978 we seen the same impossible light show. I told my friends, you know one will believe us if we tell them what we just saw

Why wouldn't they believe you? (just my opinion) Thinking that were are alone in the cosmos is the height of arrogance. Taking it another step farther, we only perceive a tiny slice of reality yet we delude ourselves into thinking that our perception of it is all encompassing. We "miss" more than what we "see".....