What's In the Sky Tonight?

[walkinghorse]

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090506.html

 

[VAdoublegunner]

I am sort of an amateur astronomy buff. One site I check almost daily is Space Weather. They have great info about sunspot/solar flare activity, meteor showers, auroras, and asteroid near misses. They also have a Satellite Tracker where you can put in you Zip Code and see if the ISS or other visible satellites are making a transit overhead so you can go out to watch them (or put on your tinfoil hat, as the case may be...). Since the recent additions to the ISS, it is nearly as bright as Venus is these days.

For example, this notice from March 18th this year was cool:
ASTEROID FLYBY: Newly-discovered asteroid 2009 FH is flying past Earth today, March 18th, only 85,000 km (0.00057 AU) away. That's a little more than twice the altitude of a geosynchronous communications satellite. There is no danger of a collision with the 20-meter-wide space rock--just a close shave. Experienced amateur astronomers can track 2009 FH using this ephemeris. It is shining about as brightly as a 14th magnitude star.

 

[red14]

Great picture Walkinghorse. Did you take that with a Kodak instamatic?

 

[Bullet Bob]

For me tonight, it's rain.

 

[Vulcan Bob]

As long as it's not an incomeing I.C.B.M. I'm good!

 

[Tempest 455]

They also have a Satellite Tracker

That is an awesome website.

 

[gaucho1]

Walkinghorse

I have that site on my favorites and view
it daily.

Reminds me where we really are.

Often beautiful,always interesting.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

"Ghost Riders"?

 

[RonJ]

I love this stuff. This is what I use as back ground on my computer desk top:

 

[DeathGrip]

Wait,Whats that? Oh its the 7:30 coming into Ft.Lauderdale.

 

[7tenz]

Did anyone see the near new moon eclipse Venus a few weeks ago? It was probably mostly a pacific time zone event, being it happend just before dawn and Venus re-appearing at sunrise here in so cal.

 

[Jack Flash]

Originally posted by red14:
Great picture Walkinghorse. Did you take that with a Kodak instamatic?

My guess would be the Kodak insomniac.