dabiggestu2fan
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Thank you all for the awesome comments on my pics! I am glad we can all enjoy the wonders of space! It’s a great escape from the stresses of life sometimes!
Thanks Mama! That is awesome that you live in a very dark area! Not very many people can truly enjoy that now a days! In fact I am very sad that most kids of this generation have never experienced a true dark sky where they can see the Milky Way! When I was a kid and lived in Argentina, we lived in the countryside in the middle of nowhere and I swear the sky was white with stars!! They were brilliant and there were millions of them! It is one of those childhood memories I will always cherish! I wished more people now could experience this but sadly as population continues to grow, so does light pollution and I don’t ever see it getting better
Oh yes forgot to answer your question, I think your daughter might be correct and could very well be the ISS that you saw. I found a great website which tells you when the iss will pass in front of the moon or sun in any location you set it to. This is great to get great pics of the moon with the silhouette iss in front. The name of the site escapes me now and it was saved on my old phone. When I find it I’ll post it up here! I am sure there are also lots of sites that also tell you when the iss will fly overhead in your area. I’ll post links of what I find soon!
This is the iss transit finder I was talking about. It seems there is also tons of apps out there to download. This one is web based:
https://transit-finder.com
I got a quick video of the ISS transiting us when I was in Italy for school.
My British colleague can be heard on the recording saying “I’ve got a space boner.”
oh wow thanks so much! i will check that out! looks like fun!
i do love the dark skies here, can see the Milky Way clearly too, along with The Plough and Orion's Belt - i think they're the only ones i am familiar with
am seriously thinking of dusting off my son's old telescope (currently in the attic) now hehe!
loved showing the kids the stars when they were little - some great memories, lying on our backs on various beaches staring up at the night sky! one of our fave family past-times haha
Of with course the radar, or long wave , or the seismology stuff - I'd do love for them to find outlines of ancient cities...
...otoh...
Trump being the one to have this discovery...
and what stupid, or crazy things he might do with that !?!?
so if they somehow find "outlines of ancient cities" on mars, trump gets the credit for it?
In a sort of general way; NASA is still government run and he's president. It "happens" on his watch.
Ah, i see what you and others are saying.Not exactly.
Certain programs are from certain directives and they normally get remembered as such.
Despite not having changed anything at all, Trump’s directive was all near term lunar stuff (probably because he could take credit for it).
The same cannot be said about things like Mars InSight or various other elements that fall under different legacy programs.
This would be like saying Donald Trump receives credit for the F35 because it entered full active service during his presidency. Nobody looks at it that way ~at all~ .
i can't think of any major space achievement that people really associate with a president, aside from kennedy making the speech setting the moon landing goal, but he had been dead almost six years and thoroughly mythologised by the time that actually happened.
Anyone see the lunar eclipse last night? I didn’t take any photos this time as I am busy with my kitchen renos but it looked very nice indeed. Even though they are not as rare as solar eclipses, they still look pretty cool!
(bu don't you think your "at all" with typographical emphasis seems a bit snarky? I just stated a concern)