http://www.heavens-above.com/
Just saw this site on "The Sky at Night" -
There's a great trick you can do with Iridium flares...Select your location here, then check to see what's brigtest, and what's just about to flare, and where it'll be, when it does.
Highly recommended! Once you get everything set up, it's accurate. Pretty cool, too!
ReplyDeleteI remember this from years ago - I still have a PC World article referencing it. I never could figure out which way to look, though. Now it seems everthing is straight up.
ReplyDeleteUsually they descibe Azimuth and Elevation - Angle round from North, then Angle to look: 90o = UP
ReplyDeleteWith satellites, meteors and stars above 65ยบ, look straight up, regardless of compass direction.
ReplyDeleteYeah, as Amos pointed out, this is an interesting and useful site once you get your home coordinates logged in. I really like the self-updating star charts. I just wish that the nightly viewing conditions were better in Los Angeles.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't believe the sky the other night, here, in light- and air-polluted London - It was just SUPERB! Shame that there're buildings surrounding me, or I'd bet I could have seen horizon to horizon (thinks about shimmying-up the nearby church steeple, but thinks again).
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