Tsikavy until his recent post:
If you watch behind the shadows, you will still find a bright object that has flown high from the approach to the descent, it is time for the stars to be full of sparkles. Having glanced at the approximate hour, I see that the sun is shining directly behind the Stellarium program. vyishlo, scho tse buv ISS)
I have never been surprised by statements about the fact that the ISS and other satellites declared by officials are visible from the Earth with an unbroken eye. Let's try to get married.
The ISS orbit is declared at an altitude of 408 km.
Max. The dimensions of the station are stated to be 109 meters (with the batteries fired up). This is approximately 4 passenger train cars or 7 vans (20-tonne, Euro-truck).
And as far as I know, the ISS is the largest orbital object (of our civilization).
Now guess the view from the window of the flyer during the hour of watering.
Did you guess? Can you see the furies or trains below?
And it is less than 10 km in altitude...
To verify this, let’s look at this thing:
There are 2 islands on Lake Chapala near Mexico.
I chose them for two reasons:
1. On the smooth surface of the water, the island is more clearly visible than any other artifact on earth, as all the objects are forgotten when removed into a mush (you can also look for solar battery farms near the desert for maximum accuracy, or shedding. you know, you bastard inform)
2. One of the islands is clearly visible from the height, which can be used for orientation
We return our respect to the small island. Its dimensions are 2.5 times larger than the ISS (~260 per 100 m) and it is clearly visible from an altitude of 5.44 km, as is the great order:
And now we rise to an altitude of 400 km:
Is there such a small dot right between the points of the arrow and the letter P?
Tse great The island and the ice are visible. Little and all the same.
Marveling at the original Google Earth with a separate screen size of 1920x1080. You can try it yourself.
Do you realize that the ISS and its mirror batteries can produce enough light to be removed from the Earth?
Other satellites, as far as I know, do not at all exceed the size of the machines in orbits of at least 200 km and not for spy vehicles, which obviously cannot be entered into the civil data base.
If such arguments seem insufficient to you, remember that 400 km is the distance from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod.
And try to take a look, I won’t wake you up, but the whole place is from such a stand)
Or just take a look at the Earth in the reverse order, or better yet at the back screen:
Earth from space in 4k. The ISS spills over the Earth's continents, new images. VITA mission. ESA 2018
At 1:45 you can see Lake Leman in Geneva.
The arrow marks the Geneva airport Cointrin, on the background of its place you can also use it as a landmark:
This is what the axis looks like with a full screen with 4K video brightness:
The depth of the sun-planting smuha is ~4 km, the width of the lawns is ~400 m, but the rest of the world is not visible from the height of 400 km!
So how can you get the ISS out of this space, what do you think?
І bonus food of our quiz:
Who takes all these masterpiece photographs of the ISS from hundreds of meters away, a quadcopter, a satellite, paparazzi-kamikazes?
Why are there no stars visible on them, besides the obvious CGI with Photoshop?
ALL videos of the astronauts exiting into space were filmed on board, NOT ONE VIDEO was filmed from the side, only graphics! Can you explain this?
And why not record those who are constantly broadcasting them from the Earth? ;)
UPD from comments:
The axis looks like this: the height of the ISS is 400 km aligned with the planet.
What lights up from below, lords of the place? Even so, you can only work for a very short period
It is possible to achieve such a broken surface with this height, as shown. practically a quarter of the planet, and sometimes more?
One of the greatest assets of humanity is the International Space Station, or ISS. For its creation and work in orbit, a number of powers united: Russia, parts of Europe, Canada, Japan and the USA. This device is about those that you can get a lot of, as you can consistently apply to the countries. All people on the planet know about this station and many people are wondering about what altitude the ISS flies and what orbit it is in. How many astronauts have been there? Is it true that tourists are allowed there? And this is not all that is useful to humanity.
Budova station
The ISS consists of fourteen modules, which contain laboratories, warehouses, repair rooms, bedrooms, and government offices. At the station there is a gym with exercise equipment. The whole complex runs on dormouse batteries. The stench is great, the smell of the stadium.
Facts about the ISS
Within an hour, the station was screaming loudly. This device is a great achievement for human minds. Due to its design, due to its peculiarities, it can be called thoroughness. It is possible that in 100 years there will be spaceships on Earth of a different plan, but for now, as of today, this device is the bane of humanity. Here are some facts about the ISS:
- In one hour, there were nearly two hundred astronauts on the ISS. There were also tourists here who had simply flown to marvel at the Universe from orbital altitude.
- The station is visible from the Earth with an unbroken eye. This design is the largest among the artificial satellites, and it can easily be launched from the surface of the planet without any attachment. And maps that you can admire as and when the device flies over places. Behind them it is easy to find out information about your locality: learn the layout of the region.
- To build the station and support it at the work station, astronauts went out into deep space more than 150 times, spending nearly thousands of years there.
- The apparatus is operated by six astronauts. The life safety system will ensure the uninterrupted presence of people at the station from its first launch.
- The International Space Station is a unique place where a variety of laboratory experiments are carried out. It is now possible to discover unique discoveries in the fields of medicine, biology, chemistry and physics, physiology and meteorological care, as well as in other fields of science.
- The Vikorist device has giant solar batteries, the size of which reaches the area of a football field with its end zones. Oh shit - maybe three hundred thousand kilograms.
- The batteries in the building will ensure the entire operation of the station. Follow her work diligently.
- The station has mini-booths, equipped with two bathrooms and a gym.
- Follow the weed from the Earth. For control, it is divided into programs that consist of millions of rows of code.
Cosmonauts
Since 2017, the ISS crew has consisted of the following astronomers and cosmonauts:
- Anton Shkaplerov is the commander of ISS-55. For two years at the station – in 2011-2012 and in 2014-2015. In 2 months, I lived at the station for 364 days.
- Skeet Tingle is a flight engineer and NASA astronaut. This astronaut has no knowledge of space exploration.
- Norishige Kanai - flight engineer, astronaut of Japan.
- Oleksandr Misurkin. The first flight took place in 2013 with a total volume of 166 days.
- Macr Vande Hai does not wait until the end of the day.
- Joseph Akaba. The first flight took place in 2009 at the Discovery warehouse, and the second flight took place in 2012.
Earth from space
From space, unique sights are revealed to Earth. Here are photographs and videos of astronauts and cosmonauts. You can get an idea of the station's robot and space landscapes by watching online broadcasts from the ISS station. However, the camera's functions are affected, which is associated with technical robots.
Night visibility of the station last week
The night period of visibility of the International Space Station begins today, according to specialists from the national corporation Roscosmos. As it turns out, after the next night the ISS will be able to be observed with an undamaged eye, for which telescopes and binoculars will not be required.
As the guards cannot be fooled by the weather, the International Space Station will appear in the back part of the night sky and a predictable star, wanting to be taken into account Now, let’s not stop at the moment, but stop going. Also, most of the other bright points in the night sky of the ISS are those that the station does not move. Thanks to the fact that it will quickly collapse across the sky, and the brightness of Jupiter and Venus will change, it will be easy to gain respect for it, say the Russian Space Agency's specialists. Most of the time the ISS will be white, but at some point its color may change to red-hot - at which time the crew of the station itself will guard against the sunset.
In many regions of Russia, it will be possible to watch out for the ISS sky until 22 pm. As the Fakhivtsi say, the station will be clearly visible from the Earth, and in the next hour, the sunshine will be as bright as the Month on the next section of the trajectory.
According to the experts, in order to maximize the passage of the ISS, it will be necessary to follow the sky above the setting horizon. Caregivers can also be assisted by special programs for smartphones, according to Roscosmos.
In Moscow, the visibility periods of the ISS fall on 15 linden (2:35), 17 linden (2:26), 18 linden (1:35 and 3:08), 19 linden (2:16), 20 linden (1: 25 and 2:28), as well as 21 lime (0:34 and 2:06). The brightest station will look during the day when it has two spills in one night, with an hour of other spills. You can find out how many traces of the ISS are hovering in the sky over other places in Russia on the Roscosmos website.
Do you want to connect to the ISS online and be ready to get to the station? How will you know if the ISS flies over your home or city? Axis of the best online services for whom.
First of all, NASA has a website called Shvidkih and Simple Caution, where you simply know your country and place, after which the date, hour of the month, caution and information about the approach of the ISS are displayed, so as not to miss the station in the sky. However, there is one thing - not for all countries and places it is possible to determine the online coordinates of the ISS. So, for example, only great places are accessible to Russia: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Volgograd, Tver, Tula, Samara, Stavropol, Pskov, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Norilsk, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok and other megacities. Otherwise, it seems that if you live in a small town, you can rely less on information for the place closest to you.
In other words, the Heavens Above website is a wonderful resource for finding out if the ISS, as well as all kinds of other satellites, is flying above you in the sky. On the NASA website, Heaven the Greater allows you to specify your exact latitude and longitude. In this way, if you are loitering in a remote area, you can select the exact hour and place of travel so that you can independently begin to joke with your companions. The site also promotes registration for reviewers to expand the capabilities and availability of their research.
Thirdly, Spaceweather runs its Satellite website to provide information to the USA and Canada. Ale You can also speed up these messages for other countries. Tsikavo, it is possible to set the coordinate layout not only for the ISS, but, for example, for the Hubble telescope or satellites. For the Eastern American continent, you just need to enter the ZIP code and select the object. For other continents, you select Country – Region/State – Population. For example, I managed to find out the coordinates of satellites and the ISS for Moscow Khimki. However, this site is often re-engaged, which is why it is a great success among security enthusiasts.
It’s also a really cool monitoring of the ISS transfer via Google. You cannot set data for the time and coordinates of the ISS deployment, but you can keep track of station transfers online.
The trajectory of the International Space Station in real time can also be viewed on a special page of the official website of the Russian Center for Space Flight Control (for which you need to install the plugin Java(TM)). Along the route, you can find out about the orientation of the International Space Station, look at the archive of ISS polls and much more.
Dodatkovo You can receive notifications on Twitter when the space station passes over you. Why speed up?
Monitoring from ISS web cameras beyond the surface of the Earth and the Station online. Atmospheric sights, the collision of ships, exits into deep space, robots in the middle of the American segment - all in real time. ISS parameters, flight path and location on the world map.
Broadcast from ISS web cameras
NASA video players No. 1 and No. 2 broadcast from the ISS web cameras online without interruptions.
NASA video player No. 1 (online)
NASA Video Player No. 2 (online)
Map of the ISS orbit
Video player for Roscosmos No. 1
Video player for Roscosmos No. 2
Video player NASA TV
Video player NASA TV's Media Channel
Description of video players
NASA video player No. 1 (online)
Broadcast online from video camera No. 1 without sound and with short breaks. It was very rare that the broadcast of a recording was avoided.
NASA Video Player No. 2 (online)
Broadcast online from video camera No. 2, sometimes with sound, with short breaks. The recording was not broadcast.
Video players to Roscosmos
Some offline videos, as well as significant scenes related to the ISS, which are sometimes broadcast by Roscosmos online: launches of spacecraft, landing and unpacking, exits from deep space, return of crews to Earth.
Video players NASA TV and NASA TV's Media Channel
Broadcasting of scientific and information programs in English, including video from the ISS cameras, as well as some important events on the ISS online: exits from outer space, video conferences from participants on Earth.
Features of broadcasting from ISS web cameras
The online broadcast from the International Space Station is carried out from several web cameras installed in the middle of the American segment and called the Station. The sound channel is rarely connected during the day, but always supports such important events as communication with transport ships and ships with a rotating crew, entering deep space, and conducting scientific experiments.
From time to time, the direction of web cameras to the ISS changes, as does the intensity of the image that is transmitted, which can change over the course of an hour when broadcast from one or the same web camera. As time goes by in open space, images are most often transmitted from cameras installed on astronauts’ spacesuits.
Standard or else sira screensaver on the screen of NASA Video Player No. 1 standard or else blue The screensaver on the screen of NASA Video Player No. 2 speaks of the hourly video communication between the Station and the Earth, and the audio communications may continue. Black screen- ISS flyby over the night zone.
Sound support Connects rarely, usually on NASA Video Player No. 2. Inodes enable recording- This can be seen from the lack of clarity of the image that is being transmitted, from the appearance of the Station on the map and from the display of the streaming and constantly broadcast video on the progress. The progress is indicated by the right hand in the dynamics icons when you hover the cursor over the video player screen.
There is no hindrance to progress- means the video from the ISS live webcam is broadcast online. Bachite Black screen? - Get angry!
When video players freeze, NASA provides simple help page update.
Rotation, trajectory and parameters of the ISS
The exact location of the International Space Station on the map is indicated by the ISS smart icon.
At the top left corner of the map, the exact parameters of the Station are displayed - coordinates, orbital altitude, rover speed, hour before the sun rises or sets.
Level of settings of the ISS parameters (unit variations per setting):
- Lat: latitude in degrees;
- Lng: longitude in degrees;
- Alt: altitude in kilometers;
- V: speed in km/year;
- Hour before the sun rises or sets at the Station (on Earth you will see a cordon of lightness on the map).
Fluidity in km/year, initially, varies, but the initial value is in km/s. To change the speed unit of the ISS, click on the gear at the top left corner of the card. In the window on the panel, click on the icon with one gear and replace it in the list of parameters km/h Select km/s. Here you can change other map parameters.
There are three smart lines on the map, on one of which there is an icon of the current position of the ISS - this is the current trajectory of the Station. The other two lines indicate the two current orbits of the ISS, above the points that are located at the same time as the exact positions of the Station, the ISS will fly in parallel through 90 and 180 miles.
The map scale can be changed using the buttons «+» і «-» at the top left corner or at the first scroll, if the cursor is on the surface of the map.
What you can learn through the ISS webcams
The American space agency NASA broadcasts online from the ISS webcams. Often images are transmitted from cameras directed to the Earth, and as the ISS passes over the daytime zone, gloomy conditions, cyclones, anticyclones can be observed, in clear weather the surface of the earth, the surface of the seas and oceans. Details of the landscape can be clearly seen if the webcam that is broadcasting is directed vertically towards the Earth, otherwise it can be clearly seen if it is directed towards the horizon.
When the ISS passes over the continents in clear weather, river beds, lakes, snow caps on the Girsky ridges, and the desert surface are clearly visible. Islands in the seas and oceans are easier to avoid in gloomy weather, the fragments from the height of the ISS are very little affected by the gloom. It is much easier to see and watch out for rings of atols on the surface of the light ocean, which can be seen well in low gloominess.
When one of the video players broadcasts images from a NASA webcam directed vertically to the Earth, you will notice that the image being broadcast moves in relation to the satellite on the map. This way it will be easier to detect danger around protected objects: islands, lakes, river beds, mountain ranges, channels.
Some online images are transmitted from web cameras directly at the Station, so we can monitor the American segment of the ISS and the activities of the astronauts in real time.
If there are any possibilities at the Station, for example, communication with transport ships and ships with a rotating crew, access to outer space, broadcasting from the ISS is carried out using audio connections. At this time, the members of the Station crew may be able to talk with each other, with the Poliot Control Center, or with the replacement crew on the ship, which is approaching for check-in.
You can find out about the events that are approaching on the ISS through mass information sources. In addition, with the help of web cameras, scientific experiments on the ISS can be broadcast online.
Unfortunately, webcams are installed only in the American segment of the ISS, and we can only monitor American astronauts and the experiments they conduct. Also, when the sound is turned on, there is often a hint of Russian language.
To turn on the sound, move the cursor over the player window and click with the left mouse button on the image of the speaker with a cross. The sound support will be connected to the same level as the washing machine. To increase or change the strength of the sound, raise or lower the volume bar to the desired level.
Some sound sources are connected for a short time and without a drive. Audio transmission can be turned on when blue screen, at the hour when the video connection from the Earth is connected.
If you spend a lot of time at the computer, leave the tab closed with the sound turned on on NASA video players, and then look at it to see the rise and fall of the sun, if it’s dark on the ground, and parts of the ISS are in the frame i, brightened by the sun , what to go or get lost. . And give the sound to the nobility himself. If you have a suspended video broadcast, change the page.
The ISS completes its full coverage of the Earth in 90 minutes, simultaneously changing the night and day zones of the planet. Where Station can be found at once, you can see on the map with the orbit of the place.
What can you see above the night zone of the Earth? Sometimes the fires slept during the storm. If the webcam is pointed straight ahead, the brightest stars and the month can be seen.
Through a webcam from the ISS it is impossible to view the lights of the night, even if the distance from the Station to the Earth is over 400 kilometers, and without special optics the lights are not visible, except for the brightest mirrors, but not on Earth l.
Watch out for the International Space Station from Earth. Marvel at the results from the NASA video players presented here.
During breaks between the guards behind the surface of the Earth and outer space, try evil and folding (dosing folding).