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Gareth and I watching the ISS and space shuttle Discovery's final flyover...

Ah, CS Monitor, you have no idea how many physical & mental adolescents (including this one) just started laughing hysterically for no apparent reason upon looking through your paper...despite my fondness for astronomy...

All snickering aside, glad to hear it.

Very cool photo - space shuttle Endeavor and International Space Station transiting the sun -

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=28&month=07&year=2009

My boss sends us these -

Here is the schedule for the space station and space ( Read more... )

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Did anyone else see the triple flyover last night?

Both my brother and my boss sent me emails letting me know about this; last evening the International Space Station, the shuttle Endeavor, and the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle (a new unmanned ship on its maiden flight, for supplying the ISS) all passed overhead within a few minutes of ( Read more... )

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My kids and I went outside just after sunset, because of a beautiful pink sky in the west, and hung out in the front yard for awhile, watching the stars slowly come out. Sometimes we'd notice a tiny glowing speck, but watch it for a few minutes before realizing it was a very high flying jet. The low flying ones, on their approach to Long Beach or ( Read more... )

I won't get to see this, but any of you east of Arizona might get to, if you want get up before the butt-crack of dawn on most-likely freezing-where-you-are Tuesday morning. It sounds pretty neat.

Jupiter occulted by the Moon

I did get to see the lunar eclipse a month or two ago though, so I guess that makes up for it.