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Subject: [Spridgets] Perseids Meteor Shower (some Spridget content)
From: rbastedo at gmail.com (Rick Bastedo)
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:42:33 -0700
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Coolest recent sighting of ISS (for me):

On the way home from Midget 50th.
BillM, my son Peter and I all went to Devil's Tower Monument in Wyoming.
We were watching the "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" movie outside
on the deck of the KOA campground.
Devil's Tower looms just off to your left, you are watching a movie with all

kinds of strange spacecraft and straight overhead the ISS passes right over
the screen. You had to look up to see it, but if you did it was ironic.
Peter smiled broadly when I pointed it out to him.

Rick (looking up) Bastedo


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:36 PM, lcjones <lcjones at croakingfrog.net> wrote:

> I used to track sat's all the time with the kids. Have watched the Mir
> Space Station traverse the sky hundreds of times. Some nights we could
> capture two transits. As well, we captured weather sats and comsats. IIS
> is a bit harder to capture as it travels in, if I remember correctly, a
> more Southerly route.
>
> I use David Ransom's STSPlus program to track sats. It's a DOS program
> and last update was 2002. However, the app is very cool and works like a
> charm in XPPro and Vista.
> http://celestrak.com/software/dransom/stsplus.html . For those
> interested, there IS a bit of a learning curve. But it's well worth the
> time. You can amaze your friends and neighbors and the kids will think
> you're a genius!  ;)
>
> STSPLus utilizes current TLE (two line elements) provided by NORAD
> (http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/) The TLE's are two lines of
> numeric entries used in mapping the trajectory of an object over the
> map. There are other sat track packages but for me, STSPlus is way cool,
> old school and the kids loved it!
>
> Best time to capture a sat transit is predawn at 60 - 90 minutes before
> sunrise and late to post twilight in the evening. Usually 10PM local
> time is about as late as you can still get a visual and that would be a
> partial Western transit.
>
> The last time my son and I caught a Perseid show, maybe six or seven
> years ago, at peak we were counting 500+ meteors per hour. Time stamp
> was in the 4AM - 5AM  slot. it was phenomenal.
>
> Chap
> '-*****
>
>
> On 8/11/2011 2:29 PM, Dave KK7SS wrote:
> > FYI and FWIW..
> > Best ISS passes for Sat am over Seattle area are
> > 4:41 - 4:51 am
> > 6:16 - 6:26 am
> >
> > Pass will be from NW to E
> >
> > --
> > Dave G  KK7SS
> >  Richland, WA
> >
> > '59 Morris Minor 1000 - working on it..
> > '65 Sprite - in process :(
> > '76 Midget - co-owned with #4 Son :)
> > '06 Honda Civic Hybrid
> >
> > ----- "Rick Bastedo" <rbastedo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Some observers will also see the International Space Station, which
> >>
> >> coincidentally flies over many US towns and cities during the shower's
> >> peak"
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