Nov 26

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There are only a few more days that you can see the shuttle and ISS together, as the shuttle will soon depart the ISS and return home. The times of the next few sightings of the ISS and Shuttle are listed below. Interestingly the times that you can see the ISS are not much different in the UK than they are in Ireland. – Anyway, the dates and times for sightings listed below are for Waterford but should be valid for most of the south of Ireland. The way the weather has been recently I haven’t even caught 1 glimpse of the ISS. The next few sightings are in the early morning starting again in December.
| SATELLITE |
LOCAL |
DURATION |
MAX ELEV |
APPROACH |
DEPARTURE |
|
DATE/TIME |
(MIN) |
(DEG) |
(DEG-DIR) |
(DEG-DIR) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISS |
Tue Nov 24/06:23 PM |
2 |
19 |
19 above SW |
10 above SSE |
| ISS |
Wed Nov 25/05:11 PM |
3 |
36 |
35 above SW |
10 above SE |
| ISS |
Thu Nov 26/05:34 PM |
2 |
19 |
19 above SSW |
10 above SSE |
| ISS |
Mon Dec 07/07:27 AM |
< 1 |
13 |
11 above S |
13 above SSE |
| ISS |
Tue Dec 08/07:48 AM |
2 |
27 |
10 above SSW |
27 above SSE |
| ISS |
Wed Dec 09/06:37 AM |
1 |
13 |
11 above S |
13 above SSE |
Note – the ISS goes usually from South West to South South East and you will need a decent line of sight to the horizon.
There are only a few more Shuttle launches left before the Shuttle fleet retires … I think in 2010.
May 24

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A UFO has been spotted over Copacabana beach.
Visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8066061.stm

UFOs Spotted – We are being invaded – run for your lives….
Hundreds of people gathered to watch an amazing colorful UFO Spectacle in the sky along the famous Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday night.
The UFO light show was hovering in the sky when it opened fire attacking the nearby city … sorry, actually it didn’t, and its not UFOs, It was “Untitled (UFO),” an amazing urban artwork created by American Peter Coffin.
It was Art work all along – We are not being invaded, please do not go on a killing spree – This is a test of the emergency UFO alert system.
Mar 30

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The ShaneMcDonald.com website which I ran from 1999-2008 is back up an running… in some form atleast.
No longer the alumni site it once was … thanks to Linked In and Facebook it died a death over a few years. Now I am running a blog style site with humour jokes and the content which made it so popular.
At one stage in 2008 I got 102,000 visitors over a 3 day period, then some hacker placed some SQL injected code and the site was removed from the Google index. So when I saw this happening I decided to pull the site and do a clean down of the content – as it was beginning to get hard to maintain etc.
So if you want to take a look – visit www.shanemcdonald.com
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