[BNM] Slow meteors with no trail [OT]

[Jason Bailey]

> It orbits every 90 minutes at approx 50 deg inclination, so the place
> it is above at any particular time of day varies in a long cycle.

Oh I didn't realise. i wondered why the news in Brighton was getting 
excited over the ISS too. The Nasa site seemed to be showing it everynight 
I'll have a look tonight.

>> The shuttle and ISS times are the
>> same at the moment as I think they're docked.
>
> Red lights are unlikely to be the ISS-Shuttle comlex. When you do see
> it, you usually only see the sunlight reflectinbg off the huge solar
> arrays.

I didn't think it was the ISS but couldn't reflected light be red too? I'd 
guess that the colour of light we'd see would depend on the position of the 
ISS in the sky. In the same way that the sky is blue and the sun appears 
red when it gets closer to the horizon. Isn't there some prism effect that 
reflected light from the ISS could be going through. Is the ISS too close 
to our atmosphere to be affected by this. I don't know but it's probably 
not what you were seeing. It could be other space debris/satellites which 
you would not normally notice purely cos you weren't looking normally and 
the dark sky.

Where roughly is the ISS in the sky (tonight)? I was looking all over the 
place and I think it was SSE which for me means looking over lots of 
brightly lit houses and streets so no chance.

We used to go to a place near Liverpool and look at the stars (Mersey View 
or Frogdham??) and you'd often see things which I can only assume were 
satellites or similar large objects in space (firefly quote almost?)

Was it the borg coming to stop first contact, again?

Jason