Comments on: West Seattle skygazing: ‘Supermoon’ tonight; meteors soon

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:13:09 +0000

GWS & anyone else interested in ISS:
You can look up information about the station’s passes overhead on http://spotthestation.nasa.gov
Today when it went over it had 6 astronauts onboard (did you wave?) and you may have seen the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-5) “Georges Lemaitre” trailing behind the station by about 20 degrees (two fists at arm’s length).
ATV-5 will arrive at the station on August 12.
Way more info than you know what to do with: http://www.nasa.gov/content/european-cargo-ship-fine-tunes-path-to-station/

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 02:11:56 +0000

BeachDriveBoy-
Where East is 90 degrees and South is 180, the Moon will rise tonight at 105 degrees. This should be easily visible from the Overlook on Admiral, and likely from Hamilton–depending on trees.

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 11 Aug 2014 01:18:55 +0000

It should rise between due east and exactly southeast. I’m guessing (and can confirm later) that it’ll be a bit East of East-south-east,

By: BeachDriveBoy

BeachDriveBoy — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:36:41 +0000

Does anyone know where on the horizon the moon will rise? That is, can we see it from Hamilton park, or do we need a vantage point that looks more to the south?

By: betsy

betsy — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:59:27 +0000

Early evening towards looking to view later stars meteor peseriod rarely at once do if does not react by low tides in creating faults to quake?

By: Alice

Alice — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 19:36:37 +0000

That was a beautiful Moon… thanks for catching it, Diver Laura!

By: WSB

WSB — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 18:00:04 +0000

In reply to Enviromaven. sorry, fixed.

By: Enviromaven

Enviromaven — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:14:50 +0000

I’m assuming that “…at 8:13 am” is a typo and should read 8:13 pm? Otherwise, my circadian rhythms are going to be doing backflips :)

By: GWS

GWS — Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:13:28 +0000

I think the ISS will also be visible for a couple of passes this evening to add to the sky gazing possibilities.