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senoritafish

Cold Full Moon

Dec 23, 2007 19:30

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... )

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angelsmum December 24 2007, 05:16:30 UTC

I noticed Mars the other night, and it did look very large and bright. :)

*edited to use an appropraiately celestial icon.

runningnekkid December 24 2007, 06:56:05 UTC

very cool post. :)

Space & Astronomy .... anonymous January 7 2008, 02:48:51 UTC

Leeanne,
Some sites you and the kids might investigate are the following:
spaceweather.com (for interesting things going on in the heavens)
http://www.heavens-above.com (for see schedules for International Space Station (ISS) or satellites fly overs)
and
http://science.nasa.gov/RealTime/JPass (similiar to the one above but if you go to the email generator page you can have ISS flyover updates emailed to you)

I think if you could show the kids the ISS flying over they wold remember it for along time. It's really cool when you can show them the shuttle & ISS flying over in tandum. I showed my coworker one morning when we were changing shifts and the flyover occured at 6:20am or so. He was bowled over cause he didn't thing it would be as visable as it was.
David

Re: Space & Astronomy .... senoritafish January 7 2008, 03:42:58 UTC

Thanks Dave - did you forget you have an account here? Yeah,I was pretty sure that was a satellite I saw, but it disappeared before I could point it out to anyone. I have no idea which one it was, so maybe now I can look it up with those links.