Space station visible in sky...... now......

look south and you'll see a bright planet. Below it is a very slow moving light, west to east. Through binocs it is reddish/yellow and sparkles.

 

just watched it , about as fasinating as paint drying, but watch for the meteor showers over the next few days, thats summat to watch

 

Yeh, heard about them....... 12th/13th int it? nt

 

yep nt

 

I've just been into our works carpark to see if i could see

but the surrounding building are too high.

As i was looking at the sky i did see what i thought was a shooting star going downwards, it could have been what you mentioned.

 

Got it mate - like to see owt like that. Im no space expert like, but below the bright planet, I see the sparkly thing, slightly to the left below, but to the right I see another bright star, but not as bright as the main one above it. What are they? The main one and t'other one?

 

Mars & Venus?

at a guess

 

Mars being the big & bright?

 

think so

the other could be saturn though but probably another planet.

 

I'm trying to work this out

Given Mars is outside the Earth's orbit, whilst Venus is inside the Earth's orbit, then would it be possible to see them both in the sky together?

 

Just looked at a piccy of the solar system. I doubt now that it will be Mars AND Venus as both are either side of Earth, Venus being the nearer the sun. Maybe Jupiter and Mars? Although Jupiter is HUGE!

 

But Jupiter is further away so will look smaller!

 

I realise that mate, I just thought there was more chance of it being Jupiter than Venus. I still dont know.

 

RE: I'm trying to work this out

Potentially possible I reckon, not knowing owt about owt. If you had three concentric rings and you stood on the middle ring, you would be able to see the inner ring in front of you and the outer ring wrapping around the back of it. Following this logic, you'd probably have the best chance of seeing the two together at dusk/dawn, looking along a line that makes a tangent with the inner ring's orbit. Is this making any sense? Nope... I'm taking arsch.

 

here's the answers

http://www.r-clarke.org.uk/astro1.htm

 

RE: it isn't the space station....

...some bloke at the top of the common has a massive sattelite dish used for receiving swedish porn, that's all it is

 

sorry I will take it down in the morning

:'( :'( :'(

 

RE: sorry I will take it down in the morning

, perv

 

Is that a planet? I thought it was a light on tower crane next to baltic nt