December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

Thanks and happy new year!

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Has anyone managed to see the ISS? I haven't been star-gazing long so I haven't had much of a chance to see it - night time always seems to be cloudy here!

If anyone has seen it I would be very interested in knowing any tips you might have for seeing it.

19-02-2007 04:03 PM
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I haven't seen it, but most people who have seen it have seen it by luck rather than looking for it. I'm sure you could find orbital path for it somewhere, I'll have a look and get back to you.

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Good idea Icon_smile

I had a look on the ISS website and they have a very useful applet to see where/when the ISS will be visible at
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/realdata/si...aSSOP.html

According to the applet the next sighting over London will be: Mar 19 at about 5am.

On a side note, what are your opinions of the ISS? Do you think it has been a success?

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RE: The ISS

I`ve seen it atleast twice.See more iriduium flares then ISS..
The best place to look is http://www.heavens-above.com/ as you get exact time it passes over your location and laso 5 or 7 day times, and you get times of iridium flares and other satelites.

P.S yes i know this post is over 2 years old, just thought i`d reply to it.

If my spelling sucks it`s because i type too quick and then hit post before checking.
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