BornFisher
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space station tonight
Hey Baja, chance for a space station party tonight!
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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woody with a view
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Keep looking up!
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Gulliver
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Hope that's P.M.
I'l look out to the East from Mulege and see if it's too far away.
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bajafreaks
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Time frame ?
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BornFisher
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The website I am using is http://www.heavens-above.com/
Here is what it says for Mulege----
Almost right above you at 9:12 tonight!!
EDIT--- from Mulege you better try to pick it up when it is north, maybe 9:11 because just after 9:12 it will enter the earth`s shadow and
disappear!!!
[Edited on 4-15-2017 by BornFisher]
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BajaMama
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Wow right over my house in bay area!
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bajabuddha
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The numbers on the black bar are the hours and minutes, and it's 'military time'... unless you were in The Corps, then 'the big hand is on the nine,
and the little hand....' 
It's also pretty kewl to note the thing will travel over a thousand miles in FOUR minutes! 
[Edited on 4-15-2017 by bajabuddha]
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Gulliver
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Sounds like the adventure bike guys who went through here southbound yesterday. Hope they are able to stop before they hit Cabo!
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Gulliver
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I've been using Heavens above to wow the troops for years with Iridium flares. I used to keep a slip of paper in my wallet with the predictions and
not warn my camping buds.
I'd come up with some B.S. story about how a killer asteroid would just be a flare that didn't move like a meteorite across the sky. You wouldn't have
time to do anything.
Then, watching my watch I'd point to the right place in the sky and say something like, "What's that?"
Got a few rocks thrown at me.
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David K
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So to be clear, 8:09+ in Calif., Baja Norte, Ariz., Sonora time, and 9:09+ Baja Sur time, right?
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Gulliver
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I believe so. I get confused on this all the time what with BCS changing over on a different date for everyone else. It's embarrassing as I am an
amateur astronomer but we sky nuts try to stay on UTC just for this reason.
It's usually really bright and stands out because it's moving right along.
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David K
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Yes, have seen it a few times, like other satellites but brighter and fun knowing people are in there!
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Gulliver
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There has been a lot of hype over the years about all of the science that is supposedly going on up there. Just hype. I'm not a fan of manned
spaceflight in any case but this hunk of stuff has been the amazing money sump since the moon shots. Total welfare for the giant companies and wet
dreams for space cowboys.
Every lick of real science that has been done with humans up there could have been done for pennies on the dollar by unmanned experiments.
The idea that humans need to go out there and do some sort of colonizing and spreading the same old junk around is about as connected to reality as a
Zane Grey western paperback.
There. Now that I've offended everyone I'll go have dinner and grouse about the human race in general.
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bajabuddha
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It's all FAKE NEWS. They have a mobile spotlight to shine into the sky making a FAKE satellite to go from one horizon to another... everyone knows
the world is flat... ask any NBA player. They move it around and post it on a FAKE website. Sad. Bigly SAD.
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Gulliver
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Wish it were true! Think how much cheaper it would be!
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chuckie
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Its a Hologram from Oxnard
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BajaOkie
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Just passed over, cut through the bucket end of the Big Dipper. Faded out soon after that.
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Russ
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A bunch of us watched it. I was expecting it to pass across the horizon. Forgot the our beach doesn't face East and it passed almost over head.
Bahia Concepcion where life starts...given a chance!
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MICK
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Watched it go over last night also saw a satelite going the other direction at the same time. Don't worry they missed each other.
Thanks for the heads up
Mick
Getting there is ALL the fun!
Ok being here is fun to
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woody with a view
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Last time in I slept with my head on the tailgate and counted 8 fast moving objects before I closed my eyes and slept, camped alone on the coast that
shant be named.
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