Watch the ISS go overhead TONIGHT!!!

[lozzy]

i suspect there is still a moon but we just can't see it because of the angle of sun shining or something like that lol

if you're right and there is no moon, where has the man gone?

Thanks, The man must be having a long sleep.

[Skywatcher]

OK guys - well done really grat you are watching it - Jupiter certainly wouldn't have been up at 7 am - whre in the sky were you looking :uncertain: may have been Venus at that time

No moon as its a 'new moon' at the moment so no bits of her are pointing at the sun - start to see a crescent early evening by the end of the week cloud allowing

[Dawn]

I told everyone at work to go out and see the ISS but they all looked at me like I was mad.

[Skywatcher]

Muggles!

[simonwebb74]

OK, we're hooked, just brought my boy a telescope, Nanny & Grandad can give it to him for his birthday!!

[Skywatcher]

ooo what did you get him?

[simonwebb74]

Just a cheap one to begin with, £25 from Argos
http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Produc...>TEELSCOPE.htm

I did stand in Costco at the weekend looking at one with auto tracking but decided £120 was far to much money to spend at the moment.

[simonwebb74]

Here is a link to all the photos I took on Friday evening.

They are pretty poor, but I am strangely proud of them as a first ever set of space photos. They can only get better

http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/70246310

[Skywatcher]

Mate there is nothing wrong with them at all - TBH I'm not a fan of the 25 quid jobbies from argos - might be worth puttinh it on a normal photogrraphic tripod as the mounts they provide are pretty shakey - should be ok for the moon at low magnifications though - hopefully itr will do enough to inspire him to take it up seriously

[simonwebb74]

Mate there is nothing wrong with them at all - TBH I'm not a fan of the 25 quid jobbies from argos - might be worth puttinh it on a normal photogrraphic tripod as the mounts they provide are pretty shakey - should be ok for the moon at low magnifications though - hopefully itr will do enough to inspire him to take it up seriously

Thats the idea. If he likes it we can always upgrade