The international space station's orbit is too low to seem stationary.
You can track it here. I don't think it's been visible over California,
certainly not every night.
(Requires Java).
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/tracking/index.html
Anyway in spite of it's relatively large size, compared with other
satellites, it's still tiny in the grand scheme of things and will look
like a star except for it's rapid movement across the field of fixed
stars, if you can see it at all. It is not built to be particularly
reflective.
The second picture you've shown, if the object you're referring to is
the bright light at the edge of the trees probably isn't the space
station, it would be too bright. Sorry I can't tell you what it is, I
can only tell you what it probably isn't.
You can get predicted times for all visible satellites from this page,
just go to configuration and input your location. From there you choose
the object you want to track and you'll get a list of times and dates it
will be over your location.
http://www.heavens-above.com/?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=CET
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WARNING: These are very bad photos.
For about three months, there has been a very bright light "parked" in the
sky over Walnut Creek (actually, it seems to be parked almost over my house.
Talk about paranoia.) Sometimes there seem to be two. I am not positive the
second isn't a star, except it is visible when no stars are visible.
The first is very, very bright, and seemingly very big. It looks like a
helicopter when you first spot it, only it doesn't move. Well, it does move, but
very, very slowly, so the movement isn't visible.
I've pointed it out to three people in the last three months, no one knows
what the heck it is. I suspect it MIGHT be the space station. A satellite of
some kind anyway. It tends to move in an arch across the sky.
The first photo was taken handheld the other night. Obviously too much
movement (on my part). The second was taken tonight with a tripod and bulb, 1/40,
f 5.6, 1600 ISO. By the time I figured out how to shoot bulb it was getting
much lower in the sky (new camera and never shot bulb before). It started out
much higher. (The other had become so low it was behind the trees/hills).
Any suggestion on how to shoot it better, appreciated. Sometimes there is a
helicopter in that part of the sky and I'd like to get them together.
Because, pause, it really looks like it is leaving the "mother ship." ;-)
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/UFO1.htm
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/UFO2.htm
Marnie aka Doe :-) You asked, frank, and you got.
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