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8Nuts MotherGoose

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  1. Don't say, "Ah, if Only...." Check for a Pass near you [I know there is one] and spend some time to find partners like we do. I have found a possible group of five for my Pass. If you have forgotten how, ask me, I'll retrain you.
  2. There will be night time visible passes across the Atlantic for a few days in July starting on the 13th. I'm not sure about the 12th. I am in Texas, near the USA/Mexico Border. I have a Pass on the evening of July 13 at 21:47 to my South. It will pass near New Orleans, LA, and Washington DC. It will hit the coast of Frence on July 14, near Nantes at 05:08 , and continue SE along the west coast of Italy. This Pass is far enough north so viewers can create Waymarks in the southern part of Ireland and Great Britain. Let me know If anyone is interested in partnering with me.
  3. As long as the Sun continues to shine on and light up the ISS, the ISS is not in the Earth's shadow. It is actually above the Earth's shadow. During the northern Summer months, the north polar region is tilted toward the sun. The Sun shines over the north polar region and keeps the ISS lit all the way across the Atlantic. When the ISS reaches morning daylight, it is no longer visible and the viewable pass is done. An ISS Pass from NW to SE in the middle of the night will still enter the Earth's shadow when it gets far enough South. The NW to SE passes in Europe that we work on are late enough they are being lit by the morning Sun from the NE.
  4. THE LAST EARTH'S SHADOW BETWEEN NORTH AMERICA AND EUROPE SHOULD BE TONIGHT. As near as I can tell: May 15 pm-16 am - two passes are available Texas - 21:23 to Bordeaux, France, 04:44 to Sicily, 04:48. (I AM AVAILABLE AS A PARTNER IN TEXAS) San Diego, CA - 20:59 to West Coast of Portugal 05:21 (bluesnote should be available as a partner in California) May 16 pm - 17 am - One pass is available Tampico, Mexico to Brest, France 03:55 to Rome, Italy 03:59 (I AM AVAILABLE AS A PARTNER IN TEXAS) May 17 pm - 18 am - two passes are available Jacksonville, FL, 20:52 to Orleans, France, 02:09, to east coast of Italy 02:12 to Greece. Oklahoma City, OK, 21:27 to Madrid, Spain, 04:44. (Max and 99, and vulture1957 are available as partners in Oklahoma) There will be other passes available in the near future for which I have not checked. If you are within 200 miles (320 km.) of the flight path, you are probably within the 45° viewing area. For one pass or another, the viewing area includes all of Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy. It also includes the southern part of Great Britain and parts of other Countries to the North and East. You will have to determine which Pass is within your viewing area.
  5. Much of it depends upon whether the cache Owner remained active. Even before we had local Reviewers, if a cache got stolen and the owner didn't replace it, GCHQ would archive it. Ammo cans were frequently used back then and stolen too.
  6. If I had been there first to create a legal Waymark, I would not have logged Mingo. I already have it logged from years ago.
  7. I had a Starlink pass last evening at ~20:50. only 27° NE and didn't see any of them. Then at ~21:40 another train to my West flew right next to Venus at 26°. I really didn't expect to see them. Lots of haze. I couldn't see any stars much below 45°.
  8. My Niece lives in Loma Linda, CA. She went out to see them with neighbors last night. They were scheduled to pass at 85°. None were seen due to haze. These satellites are about the size of a table and weigh 500 pounds. Although still gaining altitude, they are currently 100 km lower than the International Space Station. That also means they enter the earth's shadow sooner. You will also see larger changes in their flight path. You have to check the schedule almost daily. For the ISS - If it's path is NW to SE and OK City sees it at 45° SW, I will see it at about 44° NE. from Donna, TX. The schedule (at this moment) shows for Starlink-1332 on May 1, OK City will see it at 31° SW and I will see it at 44° NE. Because of the lower flight path, the altitude of view drops faster also.
  9. My brother was sitting in his outdoor hot tub in northern Illinois and saw a Starlink train pass over. He asked on Facebook what they were. I explained. I have a Starlink train of 60 coming right toward me on April 30 out of the NW. They should have been about 85° but the first one enters the Earth's shadow at 61° to the NW at 9:20 pm. At 9:23:30 the middle of the train enters the shadow at 50°, and the last of the train enters the shadow at 30° at 9:33 pm. An interesting note is the last one is 2.5 minutes behind the previous one. The last 11 hit shadow below 45°.
  10. I have an ISS Pass tonight NW to SW at 9:12 pm. It's only 44° to my West but the path hits Venus and then disappears into the Earths shadow two minutes later. Mostly thin cloudy right now. Maybe I'll get lucky. I have another pass tomorrow, NW to SE, at 8:26 pm at 82° to the NE. It's so early that El Paso, Texas will still be daylight.
  11. Definitely chocolate-covered cherry Waymark. Shorten it to initials and you have a CCC Waymark. I do enjoy the cherries but will take Peanut butter Taffy Kisses any time.
  12. Some of us Yankees have learned and can convert in our head approximations for distance, and volume. I personally prefer the Robertson head screws over the Phillips, but they are hard to find.
  13. We've got it for $1.79/gal. That's $.47/liter. I do not remember when it was below $1.00/gal. I do remember as a child in the late 1950's, they had gas wars between oil companies. In our small town there were two gas stations. One was told to cut their price from $.11 to $.09 / gal. , which he did. The other was also told to cut his price. He said "nuts to that", closed his station, and put a sign in the window "Gone on Vacation"
  14. This is for a new person. Much of it you already know and can slide over. All you need to do is create the 3 Check Points - Newfoundland, Ocean N50 W40, and Ocean N50 W20
  15. This post is to instruct you on how to find ISS Path Check Points while crossing the Ocean. We will be following an ISS Pass from Jacksonville, Florida to Paris, France. The Pass will be at Jacksonville at May 14, 2020, 21:45 to the SE. You can open a "Heavens Above" web page and set your location for Jacksonville, but in this case, a view from Boston, MA. will also show the Jacksonville area on the Ground Path map. Open a "Heavens Above" web page and change your observing location for Boston, MA. Click SEARCH, scroll to the bottom of the page and click UPDATE. Now click on ISS and a list of passes show. Just above the list, click on the right arrow button. This will move you forward 10 days in time. Keep clicking the right arrow until May 14 shows in the list. There are several passes for May 14. Click on the one that is closest to time 21:49. A new page shows the night sky and where the ISS will pass through it. Above the right corner of the map, click on GROUND TRACK. Now you see a map of the Earth with the ISS Passing across it as a straight black line. A solid black line means the ISS is lit by the Sun and can be seen. The dotted line is when the ISS is in the Earths shadow and can not be seen. Since our goal is also to follow the track across the Ocean, and select Check Points, we will continue with that. In the upper right hand corner of the map, just below DATE is a triangular island. That is Newfoundland, which will be our next Check Point. Look at the time listed on the ISS path closest to Newfoundland and make a note of it. You will need that time later. For Newfoundland, I use the town of Grand Falls. Windsor is next to it, but I always misspell it with an E. Open a new tab for Heavens Above and select your new location as Grand Falls, Newfoundland. Move forward in time until May 14 shows on the list. Newfoundland has a unique Time Zone. It is 1.5 hours east of Eastern Time where Boston is located. The times listed on the ISS pass line are in Eastern Time. If the time closest to Newfoundland is 21:53, you have to add 1 hour 30 minutes to get Newfoundland Time zone. which would be 23:23. Now go to the list of passes. Because this pass is currently in the Earths shadow, it will not show in the list of visible passes. Above the list you will see "Passes to include: O visible only O all." Click on All. The list gets longer. Now click on the one closest to May 14, 23:23. And then go to the Ground Track. I frequently see a 1 minute time difference between the ground track maps at this location. It is self-correcting on the next map and can be ignored. Looking at the Ground Track map, we see faint white line running N/S and E/W. Look above at the top of the web page in the URL. we see lat=48.9277&lng=-55.6575. That's N48.9277 W55.6575. Grand Falls is just below the horizontal white line, so that white line is N50.0000. Grand Falls is west of the vertical white line, so that line is W50.0000. Both horizontal and vertical white lines are always 10° apart. Near the right side of the map, you see the ISS pass cross where two white line cross. That location is N50.0000 W40.0000 and it will be our next Check Point. Because there is no town to use as a Check Point, we have to manually create the new Check Point. (CHECK POINT CREATION) Open a new tab, go to Heavens Above, and Change your Observing Location. Instead of entering town information in the blanks above the map, scroll to the bottom of the page under the map. For Latitude, delete what is there and enter 50 (That's same as N50.0000.) For Longitude, delete what is there and enter -40 (don't forget the negative sign) (That's same as W40.0000.) No need to adjust Elevation. For Name, Enter "Ocean N50 W40" (quotes not needed) To show the proper time, we need to change the Time Zone. click on the little arrow to the right, scroll down and click on (GMT-3.00) Saint Pierre & Miquelon. Double check you entries and click on Update. Go to the list of passes and go to the one closest to May 14, 23:55. and go to the Ground Track. The first thing you will notice is the ISS has come out of the Earths shadow and is lit again (solid line.) The next thing to notice is the time. Although we changed Time Zones, it's only 30 minutes different from Newfoundland. That's because Newfoundland took that extra half hour. On the right edge of the map we are seeing Ireland. We could set our next Check Point in a city there and we would not have to manually create a Check Point. BUT, if we are following an ISS path that started in Oklahoma City or farther north, the ISS would be swinging downward toward Spain or Portugal and an Ireland Check Point might miss it. So we will set a Check Point at the east edge of the current visible circle where the two white lines cross. We will call our new Check Point "Ocean N50 W20" Follow the same instruction as above (CHECK POINT CREATION) and make the following changes: For Latitude, delete what is there and enter 50. For Longitude, delete what is there and enter -20 (don't forget the negative sign) No need to adjust Elevation. For Name, Enter "Ocean N50 W20" (quotes not needed) For Time Zone, enter (GMT+0.00) United Kingdom, Ireland and hit Update. Remember that you are now beyond Midnight and have to go to May 15 early morning to find the proper pass in the list. The easiest way is to check for a time minutes in the list that are the same as on the previous map, with only an hour or two difference due to time zone change. A surprise to remember - the Check Points at Newfoundland, Ocean N50 W40, and Ocean N50 W20 can be used every time you are planning a cross-Atlantic ISS Pass. Make a note of each of those Time Zone settings. Last year, that 10 minute shadow we saw on the path today disappeared less than 1 pass (90 minutes) before the ISS traveled it. When planning for a future pass, remember the passes slowly move westward and the times change too. Recheck frequently (weekly.)
  16. Write-up is done. Preparing to post now. Then it's nap time.
  17. I will describe how to follow and check for Earths shadow (Dotted line) along an ISS Track across the ocean between N. America and Europe. I will do this by posting a New Thread on the Forum. It will be titled, "How to Follow a Future ISS Pass Across The Atlantic Ocean." The main purposes will be to see a shadow, and find check points along the path while crossing the ocean. This will take some time to write up. Don't expect it to appear before late afternoon. Some of the information you will already know, some will be new and may surprise you. We will follow a Pass from Jacksonville, FL., May 14, 21:45 to Paris, France, May 15, 04:02. There is a 10 minute period when the ISS enters the Earths Shadow and then comes back out of the shadow.
  18. Here is a photo I took last year of the Heavens Above world map when there was no Earths shadow on the ISS. Note how the Upper ISS pass and the upper night time shadow are aligned.
  19. Vulture 1957 said, "You can't see all the way to Europe on a view on Heavens Above, so the players had to work to see that it was in the same pass. I'm trying to do the work to get an almost full orbit." If you go to the Heavens above page that shows your list of passes - then look to the top left of the page and click on "Orbit" The lower one shows the current ISS path around the world, including where it can be seen in the night time sky both after sunset and before sunrise. For searches on future dates, I open several Heavens Above pages and change coordinates on each page to follow the ISS path across the ocean to Europe. I also change time zones along the way. IF the ISS enters the Earths shadow along the way, the path line turns from solid to dotted. From some date in May to some date in July or August, The Sun shines over the North pole and keeps the ISS lit all the way across the ocean and into Europe. That is when we create the NA / Europe Waymarks.
  20. If you look at the 3rd paragraph of the Expanded Description - It describes setting up 3 people between twilight and the Earths shadow. To me that is describing 3 people viewing the ISS during one dark period from beginning to end. In the next sentence of the same paragraph he says, "The band of daylight that the ISS flies through over areas that are dark enough to see it is pretty narrow most of the time." To me, that sentence is miss-worded because you can't have "areas that are dark" during "daylight." It makes more sense if "daylight" is replaced with "sky", thus reading, "The band of sky that the ISS flies through over areas that are dark enough to see it is pretty narrow most of the time." If he was allowing a full orbit, there would be no need to mention how narrow the dark area is. Once again this indicates the original intent was to view the ISS during a single pass through the dark area.
  21. Sorry about the delayed response - I had a rough weekend. They say trouble comes in threes. And it did. All three hit me this weekend. Two major repairs and one minor repair. An orbit begins and is numbered from where it crosses the Equator on the ascendant part of the path. This means two people on the south and north side of the Equator can not pair up to view a pass during the ascendant part of the pass because it would be two different orbits, even though it is the same visible pass. We did not want to put this restriction on people who live along the Equator. If we allow unrestricted viewings that pass through daytime and nighttime, what's to prevent 2 people from viewing the ISS a day apart. Or a week, month, or year apart? That completely changes the intent of this Category. I am in the process of rewriting the instructions for this Category, which it desperately needs. Currently, the terms "Orbit" and "Pass" seem to have the same meaning. There is also no definition of "Visible Pass", of when it starts, or when it ends. I hope to have the rewrite completed and reviewed for original intent by May 1st. I will post it on this Waymark Forum for your review and comments. On may 16, 2016, The ISS completed its 100,000th orbit and traveled more than 2.64 billion miles (4.25 billion km). That's equivalent to 10 round trips to Mars or a little less than the distance to Neptune. https://www.space.com/32893-international-space-station-100000-orbits.html https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/Tools/orbitTutorial.htm
  22. After looking at several charts, some show black and brown as 1% & 2%, others show brown and red as 1% and 2 %. But that's mute, since we are no longer discussing Resistor charts. After due consideration and rereading the info a multitude of times... Rainbows are never BLACK, so we must be looking at the SKY. Probably just before, during, and after sun set. You forgot the Green Flash, which would have been a give away.
  23. We are looking at a resistor color code chart and TRYING to figure out the color code for a resistor. An untrained person would look at the chart and think YELLOW PURPLE BLACK BLACK BLACK is 47,000 ohms. A semi-trained person could think 47,000 would be YELLOW PURPLE ORANGE. A professional would know YELLOW VIOLET ORANGE is 47k ohms, and GOLD is 5% tolerance. A professional also knows when you add a 5th and 6th color band, everything changes: The first three bands become numbers, not just the first two bands - YELLOW VIOLET ORANGE is 473 The forth band is the multiplier - GOLD is x0.1 multiplier. YELLOW VIOLET ORANGE GOLD is 47.3 ohms. The fifth band, BROWN is 2% Tolerance. There is no RED as the 5th band. IF you want a 47K ohm resistor with 4 bands, it would be YELLOW VIOLET ORANGE and GOLD is 5% tolerance. IF you want a 47K ohm resistor with 5 bands, it would be YELLOW VIOLET BLACK RED and GOLD is 5% tolerance.
  24. Three or four years ago I had one pass by me just after sunset, stayed lit all night and hit sunrise on the east coast of Africa near the Equator. If I remember correctly, it flew over Spain. Total time would still be a little less than 45 minutes flight time and 8 time zones.
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