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LenSatic
Explorer
Dec 02, 2014

Naked-eye astronomy is more than just meteors.

For you meteor hunters out there in the boonies, there is other visible stuff buzzing around up there: satellites. The easiest to see is the International Space Station. It’s extremely bright and, w...
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DAS26miles
Explorer II
Jun 22, 2015
So cool! We just went out and caught a beautiful view of the ISS passing over. Tried my binoculars. Got it in view a few times and gave up. Too jerky and moving too fast.
Guess it was traveling about 300 miles a minute or 5 miles a second. Cross the USA in 8 minutes compared to 10 months 150 years ago.
Got the whole family out there looking!

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