I found out this http://spaceweather.com/flybys/country.php?PHPSESSID=c5k09qanv8v6uucegl67ku64h4, it shows what we can see in space with the naked eye. I guess I missed the Space Shuttle, but tonight around 7:20PM in the southern ontario region we should be able to see the International Space Station with the naked eye.

I know for most this is not a big deal, but I love being able to see things with the naked eye. Yes it's only a small dot and goes really fast by, but still, I love these things.

So anyone else out there who cares for these things, or am I the only one?

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Watching things on your monitor is seeing it with the naked eye?

No you, enter your postal code and then it will tell you what you can see when you go outside to see it.

It's too cloudy to see anything today :/

Nah live too far in the city.

Yeah cloudy over here as well, looks like I am going to miss it. But the interesting thing is, all that junk in space I didn't even know we had and can see from the ground here.

http://www.n2yo.com/?s=25544 that lets you see real-time satellite orbits on google maps. Pretty nifty.

Yes I have that site booked marked too mcc84. Man it was chilly and cold out there. Didn't see it, too much overcast. Here is looking for it in 2 days, if I remember in time that is.

Its far too cloudy for me to see anything at the moment. I think we're getting another snow storm tomorrow. I have a cottage up in northern Ontario, and the night sky is spectacular without all the light pollution. I can usually see satellites moving slowly in the sky.

I think I've seen the space station. What kind of lights are on it?

I went out about 30 mins ago. I could clearly see the space shuttle and the ISS passing overhead. I wish I had thought to set up my camera. Maybe I'll get a chance during one of the last 2 shuttle flights.



It just looks like a bright star moving fairly quickly across the sky.

You are lucky mcc84. I was hoping to see the shuttle as well. Double miss for me. I was thinking of getting my camera, but no way you can take a pic with how fast they move, espically with a digital camera, unless you have one that snaps a picture 1/1000th of second.

Still I hope the skies are clearer on Thursday. I really can't complain, I was able to see the full eclipse of the moon a few months back, skies where overcast and then all of a sudden cleared and then when it finished became overcast again.

ISS isn't on the list for me, unless it's known on that site by a different name, like Carl.

Is there a gigantic cloud over all of Canada or something? Or do you all live in/near Toronto?

It all depends on it's orbit. The ISS doesn't follow the same path all the time, so you might have to wait a few days before it passes your area.

Or months. [censored] the ISS.

Around 1995, Russian and American spacecraft linked up and the combined spacecraft could be seen without a telescope. My wife and I saw it from Michigan, and it was impressive; a light like a passenger jet that passed across the entire night sky in a short time, 30-60 seconds if I remember right. We knew its schedule from a newspaper article.

On second thought, it looked more like a star than a jet, but it was spacecraft.

That's awesome!

It's supposed to be visible here in about an hour, but it's cloudy.