ISS Sighting Not UFO
I am often intrigued by the stars and anything space related. Last Thursday, August 2nd, I got to see one of the coolest things ever.
Right before dinner,
I caught the tail end of a short announcement on a local news station. I was just walking by the TV and heard someone saying something about Indiana residents to look up into the sky at 10:30pm and you will see something and it will be odd because there will actually be people up there. I call it "something" because I didn’t remember what it was at the time and it was only about 5 seconds of info that I seen. I always take note of things like this, because its a rare occasion to look up and see cool stuff like this. It reminded me of the lunar eclipse about 2 years ago and the comet showers about 1 year ago…so I definitely didn’t want to miss out.
Later that evening, it completely slipped my mind and my wife reminded me about it right at 10:30pm.
We ran outside and started look up into the stars for anything unusual.
We looked…and looked…and then I spotted something in the distance.
It appeared to be a star…a very bright star…and it was moving!
It appeared in the west and was heading east at a very fast pace.
We stood there just staring at it because it looked out of place as it zoomed by. From the time time of first sight, it took about 5 minutes to disappear into the east horizon.
{sidebar id=1}To a person that doesn’t really care about things like this, it was just a super bright start moving fast…big whoop. But for me, it was awesome…to think that there are real live humans up there in space doing their thing. It one thing to hear and read out it, but when you can see something like this with your own eyes…it just makes it much cooler.
Since Thursday, I finally found some articles on the internet related to the "object in the sky".
Space station to fly over Ireland – http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2007/0803/breaking59.htm
Was that a moving star? – http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/118621007483470.xml&coll=1
The good news is that if you missed it, they say its supposed to be coming by again…I just don’t know when.
Skywatch 2.0
is something cool that I found and would be great if I had a telescope.