ISS FLY BY

[IndigoCat17]

I Heard That Music On A Game But It Didn't Have The Spooky Noise Too It

[ThomasGrillo]

@IndigoCat17 Which game was it that you heard this music on?

[IndigoCat17]

@ThomasGrillo it was a dress up game

[ThomasGrillo]

@IndigoCat17 Ah, ok.

[IndigoCat17]

Awesome Music

[ThomasGrillo]

@IndigoCat17 Thank you. :)

[EmperorAst]

Does ISS pass by from there often?

I remember the last moon eclipse, I took many photos and made and uploaded a video. I've also seen many times persistent lights in the sky which I won't know what they are unless I get a telescope.

Great music match. :)

[ThomasGrillo]

@EmperorAst Well, I'm learning that it does fly over more often than I thought now that I have that tracking site, Heavens Above, which lets you key in your location. Another viewer was nice enough to let me know the dates for some of the fly overs.

Glad you liked the music. :)

[spocksmusic]

Very cool video and nice playing (as always). Here in Toronto you can still see about a dozen to 30 stars on an average night, more on a clear winter's night if you are in a park or something. But those scenes of the starry skies we saw as a kid are long ago or far away (and usually, far away and cold).

[ThomasGrillo]

@spocksmusic Yeh, and I've learned that the farm I used to live at is now a strip-mall, and ball park, so even there, no stars to view. Where I live now, you'd have to go at least 10 miles into the country before you can see well enough to use a telescope. Interestingly, there's an actual observatory here, not far from me, but it's not used much anymore.

[theretoni]

Hi Thomas. I love the combinations of music and astronomy (starry skies, spacecrafts...) so I love this video.

If you want to see more flybys (ISS and others), you can visit the web heavens dash above dot com, and introduce your coordinates (or register) to obtain predictions.

In winter nights, sadly, the earth's shadow eclipses almost all of them.

The sky is full of stars (if there's not light pollution), and spacecrafts :)

[ThomasGrillo]

@theretoni Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. Yeh, that site's pretty cool. :)

Unfortunately, here in the city, there's so much light polution, I can't even think about owning a good telescope like the 4 inch reflector I had on the farm back in the 70s.

ISS, the moon, and the planets are about the only things visible here in town these days.

[theretoni]

@ThomasGrillo Same problem here, near Barcelona :(, but sometimes the night is clear and I can see a lot of things through the telescope (8 inch S-Cassegrain), like galaxies, nebulaes, double stars, asteroids, star clusters... Anyway I have to use astronomic filters, like the UHC: sometimes is the only way to see some nebulaes...

The trend: better telescopes under worse skies. Music helps to cope it :)

[ThomasGrillo]

@theretoni Indeed. I'm just waiting for another sighting op for the ISS so I can do a better job on focus. I did spot her again last night, but I did not have the tripod, so it was not worth posting that one, but at least I got the focus issue sorted. :)

[ufoguy1962]

Very nice :) And it will be even brighter than this over Jackson on the 5th, 13th and 16th of this month.

[ThomasGrillo]

@ufoguy1962 I'll make note of those dates, and keep a sharp look out for it. Mabe this time, I'll remember to turn off the rutty auto focus. LOL. :) Thanks.

[BorisSpijkerMotor]

UFO @DiscoveryChannel @NationalGeographix @GhostsAreReal

[neonwind]

I'm toying with the idea of making arrangements of Satie's music for a Theremin ensemble.

As I did with my own pieces, But it needs at least 6 Theremins to get the full harmony with saties compositions.

[ThomasGrillo]

@neonwind I REALLY look forward to seeing and hearing what you do with a thereminized ensemble for such works. I think 6 theremins is about the practical max for theremin enxembles in one place, so that should work nicely.

[mchelvantx]

Prefect music for this video!

[ThomasGrillo]

@mchelvantx Thank you. :)

[serteserte]

woha, moves pretty fast

[ThomasGrillo]

@serteserte Indeed. 17K mph or 5 miles a second! :)

[neonwind]

Eric Satie works so well with the Theremin!

[ThomasGrillo]

@neonwind Yes, his works really sound as if they were written for it. :)

[EtherealTristesse]

Very cool! THanks for the link, Thomas :)

[ThomasGrillo]

@EtherealTristesse You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

[bbelilovsky]

It's really amazing how well you can see it from such a distance, thanks for sharing!

[ThomasGrillo]

@bbelilovsky You're welcome. Yeh, I thought It would be really hard to see, but given that ISS is made with highly reflective parts, and given it's football field size, it really reflects a lot of light back to us.

[robs70986987]

Some who plays theremin would also be into the space program

they go great together

[ThomasGrillo]

@robs70986987 Indeed. Space stations, and space controlled instruments. Can't go wrong there. :)

[Moosecalibur]

First :D

[ThomasGrillo]

@Moosecalibur LOL