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COMMENT 337715P	2012-10-31 06:07 PM
Dear MACPUZL, is that you? For me, you may as well be writing in Arabic. Look where? Please dumb this down for me and write "Face north, while standing at Home Depot" or such like. Thanks.
COMMENT 337732	2012-10-31 07:10 PM
I don't know who posted it, but here's the website. You can enter your city and get the same info. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/cities/skywatch.cgi?country=United+States
COMMENT 337737	2012-10-31 07:21 PM
I clearly saw it two nights ago. In Buellton, it came from the direction of Lompoc (NW) and disappeared in the direction of SB (SW). Very cool!
COMMENT 337741	2012-10-31 07:40 PM
Barely saw it thru the clouds in Goleta, hope it is clearer tomorrow, but forecast is for partly cloudy.
COMMENT 337746	2012-10-31 08:01 PM
For iPhone and iPad, I highly recommend the app "ISS Spotter." I'm not sure if they make it for Android, but it charts it's path 24/7, and based on your location, depicts exactly where and when it will pass in the sky. It will buzz your phone 5 mins before visibility! Thursday night, approx 6:38pm, out of the northeast sky. It will be bright, moving fast, and brighter than any star (if any stars are even visible at that time). Fantastic!
MACPUZL	2012-10-31 10:27 PM
Wasn't me. I did put details of these passes (not "flashes") in the comments to the ISS thread from a couple of days ago. To make the Nov 1 pass details a little clearer than the OP did: Thursday 6:37-6:44 PM, NW-SE along our ocean horizon, but higher than tonight's clouded out pass, 51 degrees up at its highest point.
COMMENT 337715P	2012-11-01 02:01 AM
What does it mean, 51° up? I took Astronomy class 20 years ago and this still has no meaning for me. 51° above the horizon? Thanks.
COMMENT 337715P	2012-11-01 02:05 AM
746. Thanks so very much! Added new app to my iPod touch. Free, too; just the way I like 'em. Oh boy.
COMMENT 337815P	2012-11-01 08:56 AM
Thanks for the advance notice (for tonight, the 1st) I tend to read EdHat's daily e-mails in the mornings and miss some events from the prior day..
RDH	2012-11-01 09:01 AM
Whoever posted that information, thank you!
COMMENT 337834	2012-11-01 09:14 AM
If you are into things like this you might like this site. It shows commercial airliners and if you click on the icon it gives the type of plane, destination, etc.. http://www.flightradar24.com/
DRBUD	2012-11-01 10:36 AM
While floating on my back in our pool a couple of days ago I was treated to the view of not one, but two!, UFOs , there in the stratosphere, directly over my head. What a treat, and what an amazing world we live in. Now, if we could just bring our humanity skills up to the level of our scientific ones, think what a marvelous world this would be.
COMMENT 337923	2012-11-01 12:01 PM
Thanks for the info on the I Phone app Got it .
MACPUZL	2012-11-01 02:02 PM
772P - 51 degrees up (or the latest predicted value for tonight's pass, 62 degrees up) means 62 degrees above a flat horizon, which is about six widths of your fist held out at arm's length. In this case, the azimuth is to the SW (think winter sunset), so that's the point on your horizon you'd measure up from.

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