Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Masomnia

Mm I work on the outskirts of Hemel, it's ok, nothing special! Never actually ventured into Hemel proper.

I was nearly run over at Sainsbury's at lunchtime today by an old bloke driving a Jag and smoking a pipe but I let him off because he was an old bloke driving a Jag and smoking a pipe.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

But if you don't know where to look, it might be flying by behind a building ..... unseen.

Yes, that would be a bit pointless. As a result, NASA produces the email with the following format:

Date: Fri Jan 15, 5:54 AM
Time visible: 2 min
Max Height: 88° (NB 90 is directly overhead)
Appears: 76° above WNW
Disappears: 30° above E

Yorkie1

PasturesNew wrote: »

There's a thread on MSE somewhere that alerts people when it's to be seen etc.... and then they post live as they're spotting it.
I always forget
I even forget when I remember and it's 20 minutes away because I've got distracted and realise 2 hours later.

Last post was last night: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4715041

Good spot, thanks :beer:

kabayiri wrote: »

I remember hating Hertford as a kid when we went to visit friends there.

When it came to leave, 4 days later, I was gutted to be leaving.

When I was in secondary school, I remember playing in the pit orchestra for several musicals at the main hall in Hertford (the name escapes me temporarily).

I was surprised at how gentrified it was when I was in Hertford over Christmas - it's got a Waitrose But no M&S, I think :eek:

Generali wrote: »

Yes, that would be a bit pointless. As a result, NASA produces the email with the following format:

Date: Fri Jan 15, 5:54 AM
Time visible: 2 min
Max Height: 88° (NB 90 is directly overhead)
Appears: 76° above WNW
Disappears: 30° above E

Thanks - those stats look useful but they go straight over my head :whistle:

michaels

Masomnia wrote: »

Mm I work on the outskirts of Hemel, it's ok, nothing special! Never actually ventured into Hemel proper.

I was nearly run over at Sainsbury's at lunchtime today by an old bloke driving a Jag and smoking a pipe but I let him off because he was an old bloke driving a Jag and smoking a pipe.

I have a colleague who just bought one of the new build flats down there - are you starting to think of buying yet?

Back still annoyingly bad, old man shuffle embarrassing and painful

Shipping tomorrow Niks - soz so slow.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I have a colleague who just bought one of the new build flats down there - are you starting to think of buying yet?

Back still annoyingly bad, old man shuffle embarrassing and painful

Shipping tomorrow Niks - soz so slow.

I wouldn't buy a flat there. If you take a walk around in Summer and all the windows are open, you hear everyone else's discussion. Being on the water is nice, but it is too high volume and you're in the middle of traffic hell. Looks nice though.

Hope you feel better soon michaels.

LydiaJ

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone. I'll pass them on to the kid in question.

Generali

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Thanks - those stats look useful but they go straight over my head :whistle:

They did mine but they are easy if you break it down.

Date: Fri Jan 15, 5:54 AM (not hard this one!)
Time visible: 2 min (the ISS is visible for 2 minutes)
Max Height: 88° (Imagine the sky is like a big pudding bowl above you. 0° would be at the horizon and 90° directly above your head)
Appears: 76° above WNW (the ISS will appear in the middle of the night sky. WNW is pretty much directly left of you if you face north. 76° means it is almost above you, 76/90ths of the way round the pudding bowl)
Disappears: 30° above E (the ISS will disappear 2/3rds of the way down the pudding bowl to your right as you face north)

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

I assume the horizon is 0 if overhead is 90.
WNW *thinks* ah, probably behind the big industrial unit over the road. So I'd need to go out and look .... that means the car as I'd feel a loony standing in the street, feel vulnerable if I went somewhere dark/open. I guess it's best to have a big open long line of view in the direction...big sweeping nothingness, so you don't miss it.

Well for that one it appears almost overhead so quite a good one to watch from an upstairs window if it faces the right direction.

I sometimes take the Generalissimos to the local park for the early evening ones.

Nikkster

michaels wrote: »

I have a colleague who just bought one of the new build flats down there - are you starting to think of buying yet?

Back still annoyingly bad, old man shuffle embarrassing and painful

Shipping tomorrow Niks - soz so slow.

No problemo. Leave it til Sat if you like.

Hope your back feels better soon.

SingleSue

Josh's latest upload...done before Christmas but had to wait for it to be edited

https://youtu.be/L1CkDlo94K8