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Post by auntym on Mar 27, 2016 12:38:47 GMT -6
www.space.com/32387-satellite-space-station-skywatching-mobile-apps.html How to Use Mobile Apps to Spot the Space Station and Iridium Flares By Space.com, staff March 26, 2016 Humanity has launched a universe of satellites into orbit around our home planet. Satellite apps will tell you where to find them in the sky, when they'll pass overhead and where they are orbiting over the Earth right now. Credit: SkySafari 5 for iOS and Android / Adrian Chi The night sky is a busy place! Whether you are a casual skywatcher out walking the dog or sitting on the dock, or an astronomer at the eyepiece, you're almost guaranteed to see an artificial satellite passing overhead or zipping through your field of view. In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll look at the apps for identifying satellites, predicting these satellites' passes, seeing spectacular Iridium flares, and even riding along with the International Space Station! First up, we'll look at why we can spot satellites and explain some of the names you'll encounter when you work with satellite-spotting mobile apps. Then, we'll look at a sampling of the better apps, as well as which features to look out for. [The Best Night-Sky Events of 2016: What to Watch for This Year: www.space.com/31550-12-best-skywatching-events-of-2016.html ] CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/32387-satellite-space-station-skywatching-mobile-apps.html
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Post by patsbox7 on Mar 28, 2016 23:19:53 GMT -6
I use these apps to identify possible UFOs. If it ain't showing up on your star chat via your GPS location, you've got a "potential" as I have come to call them.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2016 8:51:03 GMT -6
Interesting. And then what do you do?
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Post by patsbox7 on Apr 5, 2016 4:57:09 GMT -6
Nothing anymore. I had my chapter in life dealing with whatever or whoever noticed I noticed them.
That chapter has concluded for the time being, and I go about my business while they go about theirs. If there will be more added down the road, I will let you all know. But for now, things have subsided back to normal, and I am happily enjoying the human experience without any paranormal interventions for the time being.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 10:04:14 GMT -6
Well..most of us here (and we come here for just this reason) belong to a group of people that experience. Be it UFO's or shadow people or ghosts or visions or just given knowledge..it's not something we can forget or move away from and still be comfortable. Meaning the harder one tries to suppress this, the more it just mutates into something else. It's not going to be denied. I'm a good one for that..I stop one thing and it pops up elsewhere. I quit reading my cards and get angel messages..sometimes when it suits them. We don't exist on the same plane with most of these things..we are not the same kind of beings and we can't bend them around to our way of thinking or being..that can be very frustrating. Some have this perfect communication that I envy so much...with the higher realms. Not the ufo's or the aliens..they have been around before us and will exist beyond our stay here and we don't understand them either. I think to do that..to communicate..we have to be in an altered state ourselves and how many of us slow down enough to meditate or explore trance states or astral projection etc? If you're like me you think about it...get busy and just space it or your mind fights you..."no I'd rather struggle with this and fight and question and feel like I'm about to go nuts" because maybe we don't trust ourselves enough to let someone/something else do the programming for awhile. What I'm saying Patsbox.. is that you may decide to let your life drift comfortably..but you won't be able to for long. Promise.
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Post by auntym on Apr 5, 2016 15:30:39 GMT -6
I use these apps to identify possible UFOs. If it ain't showing up on your star chat via your GPS location, you've got a "potential" as I have come to call them. if i had this app i would be using it for ufos too...
unfortunately, i'm still trying to figure out how to use my smart phone...like how to dial out without accidently calling my son...LOL
i am not tech savvy...
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Post by patsbox7 on Apr 5, 2016 23:38:04 GMT -6
Lol My generation just gets that stuff. Most anyways... A second language if you will.
I will say that i haven't ever found something that wasn't supposed to be there yet. When I had that idea, there was no contact of any kind going on. Annnnd there isn't any now, so I'm just going to keep it that way.
One of yall made a comment along the lines of bumping into something you weren't really supposed to, and backing away, seemed to work. I really don't feel like being a spider that wonders into an arachnid phobic house , ehh bad one How about the mouse that wonders into the lab, yeah that works. Hopefully the scientists just tagged and moved onto the unfortunate ones on the table, because I'm definitely not on the table anymore.
If I am, I have no memory, knowledge or evidence of such.
Geez, I'll quit now. Gnight guys
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2016 9:03:04 GMT -6
new generations are born with the knowledge Auntie..they learn computer in the womb...it's an alien thing I'm sure. LOL I can use my phone for calling my kids or as a flash light and oh...I did master texting..sigh. I'm so good LOL
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Post by skywalker on Apr 6, 2016 21:10:14 GMT -6
I just recently got a new iPhone 6 and I'm still attempting to learn how to use it. It's amazing what this thing can do. I've probably only figured out about one/one millionth of the thing but that one millionth is amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2016 12:54:02 GMT -6
Mine is just a little trac phone , just for emergency stuff but my daughter has the latest android (the kind you can drop from a million feet and it still works) and her boss has that new thing that you can drop in a fish tank and it's fine. Me..I don't even have a fish tank and I don't anticipate the need to drop one from space so...eh. But they are amazing in what they can do.
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Post by skywalker on Apr 7, 2016 18:06:29 GMT -6
And just after I gave it a glowing compliment the internet on my phone quit working. Typical.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 23:05:27 GMT -6
Trying so hard not to laugh
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 23:10:56 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 23:11:20 GMT -6
Laughing....
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2016 23:16:03 GMT -6
They took my smilies....
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Post by auntym on Apr 13, 2016 11:12:32 GMT -6
www.space.com/32513-multicolored-starscape-mobile-astronomy-apps.html A Multicolored Starscape: Using Mobile Astronomy Apps to Explore the StarsBy Chris Vaughan, SkySafari Software April 11, 2016 Each star radiates with a different color of the rainbow. Mobile astronomy apps can help you make sense of what each star color means. Credit: SkySafari for Android and iOS Pleasant spring evenings are fine times to get outside, look up and enjoy the night sky. The prominent constellations of winter — Orion, Taurus and Auriga — linger in the west for a few hours after dark. Over in the eastern sky, the summer star party favorites of Boötes, Hercules, Vega and Cygnus are visible for late-evening and night-owl stargazers. In this edition of Mobile Astronomy, we'll take a closer look at stars: how they are named and how to use your favorite mobile app to pick out some famous ones and see with your own eyes that they shine with a rainbow (well, spectrum, actually) of colors! What's in a name?Of the thousands of stars bright enough to be seen with unaided human eyes, only the brightest few hundred have been given proper names. For the most part, modern astronomy has adopted the Arabic star names that were coined by ancient astronomers in the Middle East, or used Greek and Latin names already in use. During the second century, the Greek astronomers Hipparchus and Ptolemy used versions of those names to publish catalogues of bright stars and constellations that were visible from that part of the world, meaning about half the sky. The majority of those constellations were named for Greek and Roman gods, and for animals. As travelers saw the rest of the world, and new skies, in the following centuries, more constellations were added to the 48 in Ptolemy's catalogue. After the global voyages of the 17th and 18th centuries, even more constellations were added, mainly around the south celestial pole. Nowadays, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially recognizes 88 constellations. Each has a defined boundary, so that altogether, the 88 constellations cover the entire celestial sphere without gaps or overlap. Your sky-charting app will organize the sky by constellation, often using a three-letter abbreviation for each one, e.g., Ori for Orion and CMa for Canis Major. Some apps, such as SkySafari, give the option of displaying the constellation boundaries The International Astronomical Union (IAU) officially recognizes 88 constellations. Credit: Stellarium App for iOS and Android CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/32513-multicolored-starscape-mobile-astronomy-apps.html
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Post by auntym on Jun 18, 2016 13:02:29 GMT -6
www.space.com/33210-cosmic-watch-app-astronomical-clock.html?cmpid=514648'Cosmic Watch' App Lets You Track Stars and Planets in Real TimeBy Elizabeth Goldbaum June 17, 2016 The Cosmic Watch app puts time in perspective, by showing how it relates to the cosmos and the movement of celestial bodies. Credit: Cosmic Watch More often than not, time is merely a metric for setting schedules. But a new app aims to change how you view time, by moving beyond hours, minutes and seconds to reveal your position in the cosmos and relate that position to the movement of celestial bodies. The app, named the Cosmic Watch, can tell you what the solar system was like when you were born, or set the scene for the next solar eclipse. The app provides a vivid view of the cosmos to show how time reflects our position in the solar system, said Markus Humbel, co-founder of the app. "Time has a deeper meaning than what we typically think," Humbel told Live Science. It's more than just being late or on time, he said. To get people interested in the more complex meanings of time, Humbel decided to delve into the basics first. Along with his colleagues, he obtained data on planet movements from NASA and other organizations with open-source data, and incorporated information on gravity, planet size and planets' orbital paths into the Cosmic Watch. People have forgotten that the idea of time is associated with how Earth moves in the solar system, Humbel said. And, before scientists relied onultraprecise atomic clocks, which determine the length of a second by measuring the natural vibration inside a cesium atom, they used astronomical clocks, which track planetary orbits. "The Cosmic Watch is the first astronomical clock in the digital age," Humbel said. CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/33210-cosmic-watch-app-astronomical-clock.html?cmpid=514648
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