Good timing

[Clarry]

Had an eventful night tonight. While waiting for the moon to rise above the trees around my house I was checking out The Orion Neb. I was just looking up at it to get my line right when a very bright meteorite shot across my view. It was traveling south to north and burnt up just short of the moon. Looked great. Then just one minute later I spotted a satellite passing across Orion. Again south to north. This was about 9.44pm, anyone know what satellite that would have been?

[Kevnool]

Clarry download a program called Orbitron and that will tell you when the ISS and every other satelite is bizing overhead...cheers Kev.

[Clarry]

Thanks Kev, got that now.

[Kevnool]

Tell me how you find it and how youre driving it.......cheers Kev.

[Clarry]

Well to be honest, it's a bit confusing. Having said that, I'm notorious for not reading the manuals. I just like to jump in there and work it out laterally. Anyway, after setting my location, it seems it will only show the satellites that I turn on. If you turn them all on the screen is a mess of lines, but if you don't, you have no way of knowing what's up there.
If I was designing the program, I would have made an option so you could set your location, then only the satellites that come within your visible range would be displayed. Maybe that option is there & I haven't found it yet.

Ok, edit. That feature is there & I just found it. I think the one I saw was COSMOS2228

[acropolite]

If you don't like reading manuals Heavens above (http://www.heavens-above.com/)will give you details and predictions of satellite passes.