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Bugeye58 said:
I sure would have liked to have seen that live!
Jeff
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As I recall a couple years ago NASA had a web page identifying all the objects in earth orbit that could be seen, and the information for finding them.

Showing my age a little, I can remember when Sputnik was launched and my Dad and I went out with some binoculars and saw it....
 
James, I remember Sputnik, of course, and watching it, but the thrill for me was watching Echo. You could see that big balloon with the naked eye, and it belonged to US!! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff
 
Two friends and I had a great show one eve just at dusk seeing a meteorite fireball passing from the Northeast to Southwest. This molten blob appeared larger than a full moon and spewed large chunks of molten slag off the tail end. There was a smoke trail behind it and you could hear a whistling sound as it passed overhead. I will never forget it and read in the paper the next day that it finally landed in the Atlantic somewhere off New Jersey. It looked like it was going to land the next town over. After it passed we all just looked at each other and said, you saw that right? We still laugh about it to this day.
 
I watched the ISS go overhead one night. I was over at my parents house, and my dad, who's a Ham radio operator, was tracking the ISS on a computer program. You can contact them on 2 meters as they pass overhead. So we knew about where to watch, and when to watch, ant it was about an hour after dusk. so the sky was dark, but the ISS was still in sunlight. It looked like a shooting star that never faded. we had visual contact for a good 2 or 3 minutes, but diden't manage to get through to them. we heard thier signal, but too many other operators were trying also.
 
neat stories! The coolest thing I've ever seen watching the night sky was in Okinawa after a night dive. Chillin' on the beach have a couple CABs with friends we were all staring at the sky taking note on how many stars were out ( ~tons~ more than I'd ever seen in the previously ). I guess there was a meteor shower that night or something cause I lost count after seeing a dozen or so. I think we were able to see hints of the 'milky way band' with the naked eye or something too... at least that's what one of them was saying.

Then again, it could have been the CAB talking... /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]The coolest thing I've ever seen watching the night sky was in Okinawa after a night dive. [/QUOTE]

In olden times my ftaher was posted to Pearl Harbor and got to take us with him the old fashioned way- via ocean liner.

We also got to sail between the Hawaiian Islands on a Navy LST (like something out of Mr. Roberts) and had movies on deck.

There's nothing like the night sky hundreds of miles out to sea mid-way to Hawaii and between the islands. Innumerable stars, and meteors. Just amazing.
 
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