GRRRRR cant find which satellites I have just seen

[bartman (Bart)]

Hi,
At about 330hrs WAST, 250711, I was just trying to peer through the clouds with my binos, when I suddenly found two bright objects moving across my field of view. One following the other. If it wasn't for the fact Atlantis has landed, it could have been ISS and it.
Facing east, about 3-4 fists above the horizon, and about half a fist apart, two bright objects. Same magnitude ( i believe) comming from the ENE heading south, but fading at the ESE point.
I looked at starwalk, stellarium, an IIS search and Heavens-Above, but could not either find the sats or previous sat tracking.

Could somebody point me to the right website or program that will show past sat passing's?
I know I have seen it some where .........
Please help.
Google is annoyed with me ......too many searches

Cheers
Bartman

[vindictive666 (John)]

Originally Posted by bartman

Hi,
At about 330hrs WAST, 250711, I was just trying to peer through the clouds with my binos, when I suddenly found two bright objects moving across my field of view. One following the other. If it wasn't for the fact Atlantis has landed, it could have been ISS and it.
Facing east, about 3-4 fists above the horizon, and about half a fist apart, two bright objects. Same magnitude ( i believe) comming from the ENE heading south, but fading at the ESE point.
I looked at starwalk, stellarium, an IIS search and Heavens-Above, but could not either find the sats or previous sat tracking.

Could somebody point me to the right website or program that will show past sat passing's?
I know I have seen it some where .........
Please help.
Google is annoyed with me ......too many searches

Cheers
Bartman

hi

try this


http://www.heavens-above.com


create a free account and go from there

regards john

[MikeyB (Michael)]

try this
http://www.heavens-above.com
create a free account and go from there

OP already said he'd tried Heavens-Above.

How about Spaceweather's Simple Satellite Tracking

I think there's a NASA site, too, but don't have a link.

[Mick (Michael)]

I use the following.

http://www.stoff.pl/

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

From these for Perth between 03:00 and 04:00 which were predicted by CdC which uses Quicksat as a plugin, I'd guess Globalstar 14 and 26:

 H  M  S Tim Azi ElC Dir  Mag Dys F  Hgt Shd  Rng  R A  Dec RCS  Name
 3 20 19      35 59  111  6.2   2 4 2547 130 2823  019 -5.7  12  Satcom C4 Rk  
 3 30 46      58 31  198  6.9   2 9 1420  82 2261  229  6.2 2.3 fGlobalstar 40 
 3 32 24   4  87 40C 272 22.5  11 6 1459  99 2041  259-17.6      FENGYUN 1C DEB
 3 36 13     133 54  261  6.8   2 7 1846 105 2153  214-50.1 2.8  Globalstar 14 
 3 36 19     128 63  171  6.2   2 9 1997 116 2179  131-45.1 2.5  Globalstar 26 
 3 39 38      72 42  104  6.8   2 2 1419  61 1926  234 -9.0 2.4  Globalstar 37 
 3 49 21      20 36  186  6.3   1 6 1657  79 2418  048 19.9 6.4  Cosmos 1357 Rk
 3 49 37     129 74  174  6.0   2 6 1974 114 2035  047-41.0 2.6  Globalstar 54 
 3 49 50      58 47  196  6.1   1 7 1422  53 1808  2 2 -4.3 3.0 fGlobalstar 23 
 3 54 10      90 25C  88  6.4   1 6 1001 146 1872  417-13.0 8.4  Cosmos 2366 Rk
 3 57 14      89 35C  87  6.9   2 5 1460 653 2195  346-16.9 7.0 fCosmos 2416 Rk
 3 57 46      86 30C 270 22.5   4 9 1022 121 1746  359-12.1      FENGYUN 1C DEB
 3 59 19     105 40C 269  5.6   2 7 1177 117 1655  346-30.7 4.9  Aureole 3 Rk

Andrew

[bartman (Bart)]

Thanks Guys,
Thanks for the links and will have a go.
Andrew that is spot on. Thanks!
Bartman