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When I try to get your website to generate predictions for the ISS, it never accepts the name of the city which I enter. Is there a way to get your tracking program to accept my lat/long coordinates instead of a city name? Please advise.

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Why there is no any beacon on amateur frequencies on board ISS ? A 24 X 7 cw/message beacon
would inspire particularly school children during visual sightings and ham radio demo at schools. Is there
any specific reason for not having one on such a magnificiant bird.

73 de Mani, VU2WMY

HELLO EVERYBODY!
I AM LOOKING THE WEB ADRRESS TO ORDER AN ARROW ANTENNA!
DOES ANYBODY KNOWS SOMETHING?
73's
de
SV3EXT

Hello.

Last saturday, 29 March, I've been spotting ISS in naked eye, as I usually do as weather permits.
To get my observation opportunities I following a link from Heavens-Above, created based on my location, in the north of in Portugal.
Here is the link to last saturday's spotting: http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetails.asp?SatID=25544&lat=40.54305&lng=-8.05205&alt=317&loc=Naia&TZ=PWT&Date=39536.8096077849
Therefore, visible from aprox 19:23:02 to 19:28:44

Well, the sky was clearly fabulous, on that start of evening.
The stangest thing was that I saw a bright object, ca 1/10 the size of ISS, leading it by

John Locker is today interviewed by the New York Times.
Congratulations John, and keep up with the good work!

Read the article

klasse35 – October 10, 2007 – 00:18
At the European Meteorological Meeting"Sur La Physique des Nuages" in Clermont-Ferrand way back
in 1980 a NASA-Deputee gave a talk on (1981) upcoming shuttle start. (publ. as WO-PHYS-1980)
He named as Propellant some Ammonia-preparation /Ammonium-Perchlorate, NH4-Cl-O5/
in Combination with Aluminium-Oxyde as Oxygen-Donator and the Metal Al as Katalyst /Al2-O3/
and as Burning Protractor PCB/ a longtime persistant chlorinated organic substance).
Mr.Hindman jr. gave to know, that after start within 73 seconds this Explosive, here used “tamed” as

hola recien contacto nuevamente con la iss
muy buenas señales por cordoba argentina
saludos Mario
LU2HAM

Perfect sighting at 22:36 local of ISS Chasing shuttle. Web tracking times are about 10 minutes early on this site so start your observing at the shown time but plan on it not being seen for up to 10 minutes later. Have your video and cameras at the ready as the next passes prior to landing are going to be sharp!!!

Hi,

This evening whilst watching the ISS passing over South Africa from 16:58 UTC, visability brightness
at familiar normal level - until suddenly at 17:00 UTC a brilliant flash lasting about 1-2 seconds. WOW!
I guess at least -10m.

Calculations show, at the time this occured:
Azimuth to ISS very close to Azimuth to Sun.
Elevation to ISS very close to -Elevation to Sun (From my location).

If someone wants to run the math, my grid is KG44BD.

Has anybody else seen this?

Is it possible to run predictions when to watch out for this - would of course depend on ISS attitude and

Hi I'm new to the club, only joined today. Just wanted to share my experience with everyone. Last Night at around 9pm I went out to our back garden and looked up at the sky to see if any stars were visible yet.
My breath was taken away at the sight of what looked like a huge star, I knew it couldnt be Sirius, it was too big.. I went to get my husband who, upon seeing the bright object in the sky, was convinced it was the International Space Station.
He went on the web to visit a tracking site he'd found a while ago. When he saw the position of The I.S.S. he knew, that the bright star was definatelt the I.S.S.